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Red House (Seneca: ''joë'hesta'') is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 38,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Red House town, Cattaraugus County, New York )〕 making it the least populous town in the state. The town is on the south edge of Cattaraugus County, south of the city of Salamanca. ==History== The area that would become the town was first settled by outsiders after 1827. The town of Red House was formed in 1869 from part of the town of Salamanca. Local folklore states that it was named for its famous landmark, the Red House, a Civil War-era domicile remarkable for its strange, dark crimson coloring and reputed by many locals to be haunted. It was initially occupied by the Frecks family, local landowners of some repute (for whom the hamlet of Frecks is named), whose extended family was torn apart by the ravages of the Civil War, both emotionally and through the loss of several members. As the story goes, when eldest son Johnny Frecks died in the Civil War, his widow began an affair with the next-eldest, James (a relationship said to have been carried on while Johnny was fighting in the war). Exiled by the family for their relationship, the lovers killed themselves, and their ghosts are said to haunt the house. Family patriarch Jonathan Frecks II died shortly after of mysterious causes, after which the family donated a great deal of money to the town and promptly moved to another residence out of the area. Several attempts were made to inhabit the Red House, but no one stayed there for any serious length of time. Locals have expressed skepticism that the Frecks story has any historical basis.〔 Of the numerous ghost stories that are reputed in Red House, the Frecks story is not one of them.〔(Hauntings at Allegany State Park recalled ). ''The Salamanca Press''. Retrieved November 4, 2015.〕 The house was a restaurant and hotel in its last years and, like most others in the town, was demolished in the early 1990s.〔 Harvesting trees for lumber and other products was a major early industry. The town's population peaked in the 1890s, the only time the town ever had more than 1,000 residents, and declined near-continuously from that point onward. The reason that Red House is so sparsely populated is because the vast majority of the town's land was used for the creation of Allegany State Park, which has no permanent population. Beginning in the 1960s, coinciding with the construction of the Kinzua Dam, the state began an eminent domain campaign to buy out the remainder of the town; at the time, the path of the Southern Tier Expressway (then "new Route 17," now Interstate 86) was routed directly through the core of the hamlet of Red House, allowing the state to seize and move most of the town residents' property. The eminent domain campaign has mostly gone quiet since the late 1990s; the state still has a standing offer to purchase any property that is either abandoned or put up for sale in the town.〔Chu, Jennifer (February 6, 2004). (Portrait of a shrinking town ). ''Living on Earth''. Retrieved January 4, 2015.〕 A small northwest corner remains outside the park's bounds, about half of which is on the Allegany Indian Reservation and much of the rest of which is occupied by Camp Li-Lo-Li, a Christian camp. The few residents remaining in the town are concentrated on a single road, Bay State Road (named after a lumber company from Massachusetts that built and used the road), sandwiched between the reservation and the park and southwest of the original hamlet.〔〔 The original Red House church still stands on its original site, even as its congregation long moved to Jimerson Town. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red House, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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