Stonedam (Allegany County, NY)

Welcome to Stonedam ...

Although we found mention of Stonedam during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Stonedam was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

While we are confident that Stonedam was located in Allegany County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

We've added Stonedam to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Stonedam - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Stonedam, please Contact Us.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Stonedam might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Adding Stonedam to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Stonedam in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

The earliest source that we've referenced which mentioned Stonedam was the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Stonedam.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Allegany County: www.alleganyco.com/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Stonedam and then turned east". While Stonedam could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Stonedam as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Stonedam could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.