Transcibed by Kristy Lawrie Gravlin - email@example.com The Town
of Bethany, Genesee County, New York as taken from The Gazetteer
and Business Directory of Genesee County, N.Y. for 1869-70;
Compiled and published by Hamilton Child, Syracuse, NY, 1869.
Bethany was formed from Batavia, June 8th, 1812. It lies upon
the south border of the County, east of the center. The surface
is hilly in the south and rolling in the north. Black Creek
flows north through the town, a little east of the center, and
Little Tonawanda Creek flows through the south~west and
north~west corners. White Creek flows north through the east
part. The soil in the east is a dark, gravelly loam, and in the
west a heavy clay loam. Weak brine springs have been found, but
all attempts to procure salt water by boring have proved
unsuccessful. Bethany Center ( Bethany p.o.) is situated a
little south of the center of the town, and contains a Baptist
church, an academy, a hotel and about thirty dwellings. East
Bethany (p.v.) contains a church, a ho