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Pictured are runners from a race sponsored by Tonia and Mark Wilson of Cassadaga.
CASSADAGA Tonia and Mark Wilson of Wilson Endurance Sports, in spite of the pandemic, are planning events for the upcoming future. This time, it’s back to back events on May 29 and 30, bringing some activity to Cassadaga for Memorial Day weekend with both helping benefit different organizations within the town.
The Saturday event is something the Wilsons have run before, at the Harbor Hotel in Celoron two years ago. Sponsored by Southern Tier Brewing Company, the Cassadaga Fireman’s Beer Mile will return to help raise money which would allow the Cassadaga Fire Department to purchase a much needed piece of equipment.
The Volunteer Fire Department of Cassadaga from 1947.
Above is the first fire hall, located at Maple Avenue and Mill Street.
CASSADAGA – The Village of Cassadaga was officially incorporated 100 years ago on Jan. 9, 1921. Cassadaga dates to 1809 when settlers began arriving around 1803 because the area was rich for hunting. Its first land survey by the Holland Land Company happened in 1798. Cassadaga celebrated its birth centennial in 1959 and a 200th anniversary in 2009. Nineteen percent of the village’s boundary consists of water in its lower and middle lakes.
In the late 1910s Cassadaga had several bad fires, one at a sawmill and one at a basket mill. Because there was no fire department at the time it was necessary for the village to become incorporated, enabling it to establish a special tax and the money used to fund the first official volunteer fire department.