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Countdown to Bicentennial
This Week: Please join us!
September 11, 2018 - Bicentennial Committee Meets at the town of Collins Library; 6:30 PM
September 13, 2018 - Monthly Historical Society Meeting at L K Painter Center; 7:00 PM
September 9, 2018 is National Grandparents Day!
Begun in 2011, Generations United has spearheaded National Grandparents Day, encouraging generations to come together and do something Grand!
Rosh Hashana
For all of our Jewish friends; Rosh Hashana begins the evening of September 9 and
continues thru the evening of September 11.
Patriots Day
Each year on September 11 people commemorate the Battles of Lexington &
Concord which were fought near Boston Massachusetts in 1775.
Please join us.....
Take a moment of your day on Tuesday, September 11 to recall the victims of The
9-11, 2001 terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Bicentennial Meeting - Tuesday, September 11, 6:30 PM at town of Collins Library.
Monthly Historical Society Meeting - Thursday, September 13, 7:00 PM, at the L K
Painter Center Community Room.
Through the years....
Pictures & Newspaper Articles....
Collins, Collins Center, Gowanda and Cattaraugus Reservation and residents thereof
make the news....
From: Portville Review; June 19, 1927
From: Portville Review: December 11, 1924:
From: Buffalo Courier Express; August 4, 1950:
From: Buffalo Courier Express; April 11, 1928:
From: Salamanca Republican Press; March 3, 1930:
Interested in the story? Come Back Next week!
Area Photos:
1908: Angola High School:
1948: Lawtons Depot
1912: Springville Depot
1910: Pond and Fire Hall, Springville
1927 Church St., Dayton, NY
1914: Comic Card, Perrysburg, NY
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