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| Middle Atlantic States | New York | Pike |
Pike was incorporated as a village in 1848.
Abner Abams was a shoemaker who came to Pike in 1815. He obtained permission to lay pump logs in Pike Village in 1817.
The village of Pike constructed a water system in 1910. Residents of the village voted to dissolve in 2007, and the Town of Pike Water District was formed to assume ownership of the village water system.
Water is provided by the Town of Pike Water District.
References
1880 "Pike
Village," from History of Wyoming County, N.Y.: With
Illustrations, Biographical Sketches, and Portraits of Some Pioneers and
Prominent Residents, by W.E. Morrison, 1880
1915 "Protection of
Public Water Systems," Thirty-Sixth
Annual Report of the State Department of Health of New York
Page 535: The public water supply is owed by the village. The
works were constructed in 1910.
1977 "A Pioneer Village -
Pike Village," Historical
Wyoming, 23:89 (April 1977)
Page 86: In 1817, Abner Adams obtained permission to lay pump logs
in Pike Village.
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