Olean, New York
Olean, New York Olean is positioned in New York Olean - Olean Location inside the state of New York State New York Olean (/ o li n/ -lee-an) is a town/city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.
Olean is the biggest city in Cattaraugus County and serves as its financial, business, transit and entertainment center.
It is one of the principal metros/cities of the Southern Tier region of New York.
The town/city is surrounded by the town of Olean and is positioned in the southeastern part of the county.
Olean is positioned in southeastern Cattaraugus County at 42 4 57 N 78 25 51 W (42.08264, -78.430965). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.2 square miles (16.0 km2), of which 5.9 square miles (15.3 km2) is territory and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), or 4.19%, is water. The town/city is positioned where Olean Creek flows into the Allegheny River and by the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and New York State Route 17).
New York State Route 417 passes east west through the town/city and intersects New York State Route 16, a north south highway.
During the American Revolutionary War, the 1779 Sullivan Expedition established the first road to what would turn into Olean, blazing a trail to what is now Kittanning, Pennsylvania along the path of what is now New York State Route 16.
Originally the entire territory of the county of Cattaraugus was called the Town of Olean, formed March 11, 1808.
Hinsdale formed in 1820, and Portville in 1837, leaving the current boundary of Olean that lies upon the south line of the county, near the southeast corner.
Along with Morris, Hoops became involved with the Holland Land Company, which was settling New York.
In 1804, he found one where Olean Creek meets the river; the confluence was important, as it was the farthest point downstream in the state before hitting the Seneca Reservation that surrounded most of New York's piece of the river.
In a letter to Joseph Ellicott in 1804, Hoops discusses the name Olean from the small-town Oil Springs and the Latin word oleum: The Post Office recognized the new town as "Olean Point".
In 1823, the town/city is called Olean, without the "Point", on county maps.
In 1854 Olean was formally incorporated by the New York State Legislature, and the trustees propel at the first subsequent town meeting were Dr.
Nonetheless, Olean prospered and was soon the central town of the region.
Olean interval quickly as a transit hub for migrants taking the Allegheny River into Ohio.
The Allegheny River was usually too shallow for the larger steamboats to navigate except in the spring, and only two steamboats the Allegheny in 1830 and the New Castle of 1837 reached the city. A Genesee Valley Canal was extended to Olean and the Allegheny River in 1862, but the Allegheny's shallowness and the rise of the barns s rendered it obsolete before it even opened.
Timber was a primary industry in New York and Pennsylvania between 1830 and 1850, and Olean was the chief timber town in the region amid those times.
After river travel declined, Olean became the county-wide barns hub.
Olean was incorporated as a village in 1854, and as a town/city in 1893.
Olean was rivals with the comparably populated, but much newer, town/city of Salamanca (city), New York at the turn of the 20th century, but the diminish of the timber trade in southwestern Cattaraugus County and complications with Salamanca being situated on borrowed Seneca Nation territory allowed Olean to continue burgeoning while Salamanca declined.
Olean was the barns and pipeline core for the encircling petroleum region.
The operations HQ of Standard Oil's New York affiliate, Socony, was based in the city.
For a short time, Olean was the world's biggest petroleum depot, complete with a "tank city" on the edge of town.
A pipeline was also assembled linking the town/city to Standard Oil refineries in Bayonne, New Jersey.
The petroleum trade maintained a existence in the town/city until 1954, the same year in which Olean's populace peaked.
Oil also produced Olean's highest-ranking politician.
To this day, Olean is one of the several lesser cities in New York State to be home to a governor.
As long as you kept your nose clean in the Olean City limits, it was a "safe haven".
Olean, positioned on a back road route between Chicago and New York City, was often incessanted by famous mobsters of the era.
Olean is the biggest city in Cattaraugus County.
Is headquartered in Olean and manufactures all of its knives in the city.
Olean General Hospital, is part of Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS), which includes Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) in Bradford, PA.
UAHS provides care to a service region with more than 160,000 individuals in Southwestern New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, a county-wide grocery wholesaler, is positioned just east of the city.
The town/city hosted the Miss New York pageant amid the 1960s and '70s and held a parade with the reigning 1976 Miss America, Tawny Godin, who was crowned Miss New York in Olean.
Part of the movie Unstoppable was filmed near the Olean Middle School.
Olean High School is the city's enhance high school.
It was the site of the Olean High School shooting in 1974.
Archbishop Walsh High School is Olean's Roman Catholic high school.
Bradner Stadium, originally assembled in the 1920s, is a multi-purpose stadium which was once the home to the minor-league baseball squads the Olean Oilers, who played in the short-season Pony League, and the Olean Yankees, an earlier team.
In the summer, the stadium hosts the collegiate team that has revived the Olean Oilers, and in the fall is the home for the Olean High School football team.
A team representing Olean also plays in the small-town Town Team Baseball circuit.
The following are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Beardsley-Oliver House, Conklin Mountain House, Oak Hill Park Historic District, Olean Armory, Olean Public Library, Olean School No.
Fox, New York state senator Catharine Young, New York state senator National Register of Historic Places listings in Cattaraugus County, New York a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Olean city, New York".
HISTORY OF CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK, Town of Olean, L.H.
State and Union: River-traffic dreams never realized at Olean Point.
City of Olean.
Olean Times Herald.
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