This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RRB.2ACE/5957.2 Message Board Post: To your reply about Steamburg? Steamburg is in the Town of Cold Springs, as noted from the 1893 Cattaraugus Gazeteer. (page 490) "The NY, PA & Ohio railroad, one of the Erie lines, passes through Cold Spring from East to West, the only Station in the town being "Steamburgh". Page 491 - "The town of Cold Spring was originally covered with the finest growth of pine timber of any town in the county. It has been pre-eminently a lumber town, furnishing for shipment of millions of feet, but the large number of mills have been moved away until now only one remains, that of Morse & Wyman's in Steamburgh." Page 493 - "Steamburgh, a station and postoffice on the N.Y., P&O.R.R. is a thriving village of over 150 inhabitants and contains two general stores, two hotels, a saw and planing-mill, a shoe shop, two blacksmith shops, a meat market, a Union church, town hall, and a physician's office. The first settler on the stie was Eastman Prescott, who came at an early day, but no effort to found a village was made until after the completion of the railroad. Up to that time the village of Cold Spring had become famous as a lumbering center, but with the building of the railroad its principal business interests were diverted to Steamburgh, which gradually assumed a position of considerable importance as a lumber town. The name Steamburgh was applied to the village from the fact that a number of steam mills were situated here and in the vacininty." Page 494 - "The Steamburg Postoffice, the only one in town, was established in March 1860." See: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycattar/towns/coldsprg.htm which might help you further. Good Hunting!