I'm thinking it was called Nunda Station because it was a shipping and transportation spot, a center for business and trade. Genesee Valley canal and the railroad station stop was there. Because stations shipped goods as well as people thriving communites would spring up. You see the word station used a lot across NY in those days. My town of Alabama, NY had two stations. Alabama Station (now the hamlet of Basom) and Smithville Station (now the hamlet of South Alabama.) No train through my town anymore though, which killed the activity there when it stopped running. The death of the railroad and the canals in NY as an important means of transportation killed a lot of our little communities as major hub-bubs. Now if the train is still running through smaller towns they just zoom by and don't stop. Although many communites are revitalizing their canal areas as tourist attractions. --- Ruth Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > G`day, > from South Australia. This is my first > message to the list and also first American enquiry. > I recently found a person of the same name as my > g-g-grandfather (Hendry or Henry FRAMINGHAM) on the > 1850 Census for Nunda Station. On the Census he has > a 4 year old born in England, so this fits in nicely > with his last appearance in UK records that I can > find in 1844. He was widowed that year and his two > children from that marraige are in the workhouse in > Norfolk, UK in 1851, no sign of their surviving > parent. > > My main query at this stage is; can someone please > explain what the word `Station` means after Nunda. > Here in Australia it means the same as Ranch in the > US. > Look forward to hearing from my new list. > cheers from > Ruth in Adelaide( formerly Norfolk, UK.) > > researching:- FRAMINGHAM, anywhere. > GREENGRASS, Norfolk. > SINCLAIR, Sunderland, Co; Durham & Banff, Scotland. > PRIOR, Sunderland, Co; Durham & Co; Cavan, Ireland. > McGINNITY, Sunderland, Co; Durham, & North; Ireland. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ===== Cindy Amrhein Historian/Abstractor Town of Alabama Historian Genesee Co., NY ********************** Historian's Page - Alabama, NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycalaba/ APHNYS (The Association of Public Historians of New York State) http://www.tier.net/~aphnys/ You can easily ascertain whether the occupant drinks bitters in the morning and whiskey with his dinner, or pure water and nothing else � If he drinks bitters you will find his garden full of weeds.�� James Wadsworth 1791 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com