Buffalo Creek Reservation

Buffalo Creek Reservation - located in the central portion of Erie County, included a good portion of the present day City of Buffalo, New York and its eastern and southern suburbs (New Amsterdam was the Holland Land Company name for the village of Buffalo)

The Buffalo Creek Reservation was a tract of land surrounding Buffalo Creek in the central portion of Erie County, New York.[1][2] It contained approximately 49,920 acres (202.0 km2) of land and was set aside for the Seneca Nation following negotiations with the United States after the American Revolutionary War.

  1. ^ Holland Land Company map - circa. 1821
  2. ^ Houghton, Frederick (1920). "The History of the Buffalo Creek Reservation". Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society. Vol. 24. Buffalo Historical Society. pp. 109–116.