Research


Scope and Content Note

The series includes meeting minutes of several school boards, and of a variety of municipal boards in the towns of Leon, Ripley, Ellicott, and Busti and the Village of Cuba, in Chautauqua County.

Microfilmed school records include board of education minutes for: Watts Flats School No. 16 (1890-1917); Watts Flat School No. 2 (1932-1936); Niobe School No. 8 (1924-1936, 1939-1940); Ashville School No. 3 (1919-1956); Panama School No. 6 (minute books 1-2, 1895-1939); Panama Central School, Board of Education (minute books 3-16, 1938-1998); Busti School District No. 2 (1901-1947); Union Free School District No. 3, Towns of Busti and Ellicott at Celoron (minute books 1-3, 1896-1935); Union Free School District No. 1, Town of Busti, called Lakewood High School (minute books 1-10, 1905-1947); and Southwestern Central School (minute books 1-9, 1949-1998).

Microfilm also includes town and village board meeting minutes for the Town of Ripley (minute books 1-14 , 1816-1998), the Village of Cuba (minute books 1-13, 1850-1999), and the Town of Leon (minute books 1-9, 1892-1998); minutes of the Village of Cuba board of water commissioners (minute books 1-2 , 1888-1933); and minutes of the boards of health in the Village of Cuba (1907-1931) and the Town of Ripley (1882-1898).