ELMA HISTORY LINKS
1929 Video FDR visits Oliver Cabana, Jr. at Pine Grove Farm in Elma NY (silent)
1916 Catalog from Cyphers Incubator Company Poultry Farm in Elma Center
https://archive.org/details/1916cypherspoultryfarmelmany
Buffalo Research Website by Cynthia Van Ness, Buffalo History Museum Senior Librarian
Home page: https://buffaloresearch.wordpress.com/
Data Matrix:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18vjIl5bo05t6eaHISKWfXkAUjp7c5CtTIZWPkMfW-3g/edit
1880 Maps of Elma, Elma Village, Upper Ebenezer (Blossom), Spring Brook and East Elma
https://archive.org/details/1880-maps-of-elma-ny
1957 Elma Centennial Celebration booklet (many great ads)
https://archive.org/details/1957-elma-ny-centennial-celebration
1884-1890 Milling World Magazines published in Buffalo NY
https://archive.org/details/@bri-elma-ny?query=Milling+World&sort=titleSorter
See the Thomas Flyer Race Car as it appeared when stored in the Finnegan Barn in Elma Center -- driver Goerge Schuster on "What's My Line?" TV show in 1958. At the end the car is shown essentially as it existed in Elma.
GOVERNMENT LINKS FOR
eLMA AND ERIE COUNTY
Official Town of Elma New York Website
Especially handy for new residents.
Erie County Property Search Webpage
https://www2.erie.gov/ecrpts/index.php?q=real-property-parcel-search
Tips for searches: entries must be exact; you can search in only a particular town or all of Erie County; searches can be for a last name or for a street address; leaving the address number blank (street name only) brings up all properties on that street; records often go back only 20-to-30 years.
Erie County (NY) Public Library System
Home page for Downtown Buffalo Headquarters:
Tip: a free-of-charge Library Card allows enhanced web access.
Read the 1940 Elma News:
http://digital.buffalolib.org/collections/show/15
Home page for Elma branch:
https://www.buffalolib.org/locations-hours/elma-public-library