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Town Line is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 2,367 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is located on the boundary between the towns of Lancaster and Alden. Town Line is at the junction of Town Line Road and Broadway. The Town Line Fire Department is located on the Lancaster side of the hamlet. It serves the portions of the towns of Lancaster and Alden. Another community, Town Line Station, is about a mile to the north on Town Line Road. == History == Oral lore says that in 1861, 125 men supposedly gathered in an informal meeting and passed by 85 to 40 a resolution to secede from the United States. Because Town Line was never an incorporated municipal entity in the first place and had no well-defined boundaries, the resolution had no legal effect; neither the Confederacy nor U.S. ever formally recognized the action.〔Federal Writers' Project, ''New York: A Guide to the Empire State'' (1940) p 436〕 The town historian says there are no written records of what happened.〔See (quoting Karen Muchow, who runs the local historical society )〕 Several members of the German-American community fled to Canada; five residents crossed the Mason–Dixon line to fight with the Confederates in their Army of Northern Virginia, and twenty residents fought for the Union Army.〔Kwiatkowski, Jane (September 7, 2011). (Secessionist hamlet takes stroll down memory lane; Hamlet of Town Line marks its unique role in the Confederacy ). ''The Buffalo News''. Retrieved September 7, 2012.〕 Town Line held a ceremony on January 24, 1946, to "rejoin" the Union, along with a vote (overseen by Hollywood celebrity Cesar Romero) in which the residents voted, 90 to 23, to rescind the old vote.〔 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「Town Line, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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