Smith Alley

Ezekiel Smith and his large family settled about 1806 in the area now at the intersection of Abbott and Newton Roads within the original larger Town of Hamburg. The family established a series of grist mills on local creeks, with the last mill on Eighteenmile Creek just west of the present South Buffalo Street bridge in the Village of Hamburg; later owners of this mill were Long, Riest, Bastian, and Schoepflin. Beginning about 1820, Smith's Mills was the earliest name for this early settlement, which grew westward and was later known as White's Corners before the incorporation of the Village of Hamburg in 1874. The house dating to 1815 and still standing at No. 40 South Buffalo Street was owned by Richard Smith, a son of Ezekiel. In 1814, Richard Smith became one of the first supervisors of the Town of Hamburg, which had been incorporated in 1812.

Hamburg, New York · United States