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Snyder (originally Snyderville) is a hamlet within the town of Amherst in Erie County, New York, United States that is part of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The hamlet was established in 1837. It was named for Michael Snyder, its first postmaster, who also operated a store at the corner of Harlem Road, which is also known as New York State Route 240, and Main Street, which is also known as New York State Route 5. The hamlet blossomed due to retail activity demand created along the Main Street transportation route between Buffalo and points to the east in the 19th and early 20th century. As of 2009, the hamlet has several commercial districts, including a modest business district along Main Street that includes the original town focal point at Main Street and Harlem Road, and several educational institutions. The educational institutions are both public and private and range from kindergarten through college. The Snyder community has above average affluence and education compared to the Buffalo region. The hamlet also hosts two structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places that serve as architectural artifacts of the early residential developments in the hamlet. The traditional definition of the hamlet is the "Snyder" postal service area, now merged into the 14226 zip code. However, using United States Census Bureau-based data, which does not necessarily align exactly with the old postal boundaries, the modern definition includes parts of the neighboring Eggertsville hamlet.〔 ==History== In 1804, Timothy Hopkins was the first settler in the area that would later become Snyderville and subsequently Snyder.〔〔Grande, p. 15〕 Hopkins married Nancy Kerr in Williamsville in the first marriage on record in Erie County. As newlyweds, they moved to a log cabin on a farm on the 4301 Main Street location of Amherst Central High School.〔 The Schenck family moved to Amherst at the corner of Main Street and Harlem Road in 1821.〔 Abraham Snyder arrived from Pennsylvania in 1823 and moved to a spacious frame house in the late 1830s.〔 His son Michael rose to prominence.〔 John Schenck, Michael Snyder's cousin,〔Grande, p. 34.〕 built the hamlet's first house and later built the first store in 1837, which was the year the hamlet was first established. In 1830, a stagecoach was established. It was the first regularly scheduled public means of transportation between Buffalo and Batavia, and sometimes Albany, and operated along Buffalo Road, which was later renamed Main Street.〔 By the 1850s, the Amherst economy thrived on agriculture. Snyder also had a pottery and brick factory.〔 Throughout the 19th Century Snyder evolved as a small scale business community catering to surrounding farmers and the stagecoach line along Main Street.〔"Snyder Action Plan", p. 4.〕 In 1879, the hamlets of Amherst began receiving newspaper service from the ''Amherst Bee'', which continues to exist as of the beginning of the 21st century as a weekly newspaper.〔 L. F. Crout opened a hotel in 1883.〔 In 1892, an electric trolley, which ran from Main Street and Bailey Avenue, also known as U.S. Route 62, into Williamsville, connected Amherst with the city of Buffalo's streetcar system. This made Amherst's various hamlets more accessible and desirable to the wealthier city residents who were interested in expanding their estates into the "country". This caused growth and development of the Main and Harlem area which served as the center of town for the new suburbs.〔 In 1905, the Snyderville Fire burned 12 buildings in the Main Street/Harlem Road area, including blacksmith shops, barns, and other businesses critical to the Snyder economy as well as livestock and stores of grain.〔Grande, p. 35.〕 In the 1920s, the town of Amherst began to develop by converting farmland into subdivisions. Snyder residents began to live closer to each other in new subdivisions.〔 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「Snyder, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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