Frederick G. Fierch is a lifelong resident Royalton and Ridgeway towns of Western New York. He has a B.A. Degree in History and Political Science and an M. A. Degree in History. He is a retired school teacher having taught Social Studies for twenty five years. A world traveler, he has been in more than eighty countries. This is his fourth book of non-fiction. The first was a survey of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. The second and third dealt with the Eastern Niagara County area of New York. He and his wife also operated a restaurant in their hometown for twenty eight years. This is his fourth work of non-fiction.
Life in this part of Western New York State began typically as wilderness owned by the Holland Land Company, based in Batavia. Joseph Ellicott was mandated to survey and plot...
Situated in the Northern tier of western New York, the New York State towns of Royalton and Hartland present a very interesting insight into the transformation of the United States...
