Irving, NY is a village in the northwest corner of Chautauqua County, NY. It was a station on the Nickel Plate Railroad and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.
Nickel Plate Road
A 1913-1914 Nickel Plate Road shippers’ guide listed the following customers in Irving:
- Burmaster, F. H., broom factory.
- Chautauqua and Erie Grape Co. (Westfield, N. Y.), grapes.
- Fort Stanwix Canning Co., cannery fruits and vegetables.
- Goodell, H. E., grapes.
- Moss, E. S., Co. (Brocton, N. Y.), grapes.
- McCoy, William, shipper of bay.
- Newton, F. L., shipper bolts and piling.
- Newton, P. L., shipper hay.
- Thomas, Elihu, shipper hay.
- Welch Grape Juice Co, (Westfield, N. Y.), grapes.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
The Buffalo and State Line Railroad completed its line through Irving in February 1852. The line was later operated by the Buffalo and Erie Railroad (1857 – 1869), Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (1869 – 1877), New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (1877 – 1914), and New York Central Railroad (1914 – 1968).
In the 1881 map above, LS&MS station was shown on the other side of Cattaraugus Creek north of the village. I don’t know if the station stayed throughout its entire history or if later stations were closer to the village. This map predates the construction of the Nickel Plate and Pennsylvania Railroads through this area, both of which were built in 1882.
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