Where is it? Lundys Lane is an unincorporated area along Route
18 in Elk Creek Township, east of Albion and south of
Cranesville. What's the story? The decisive Battle of Lake Erie
-- famously led by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in 1813 during
the War of 1812 -- is well-known throughout the region. But
lesser-known is one of the bloodiest land battles of the war,
waged on July 25, 1814, at Lundy's Lane (sometimes referred to
as "Lundy" or "Lundys") in Ontario. It was during this battle
near Niagara Falls, between the evenly matched British and
American forces, that 1,731 soldiers were killed or wounded,
according to online encyclopedia Brittanica.com. It was this
battle, too, that received a local tribute. A few decades after
the clash -- in a part of Elk Creek Township that is nearly 140
miles by land from the battle site -- a new post office south of
Cranesville was built to accommodate a growing population. Maj.
James Fleming, a veteran of the War of 1812 and a local
resident, is credited with naming that