Founding year: Wikidata; Wikipedia’s history section gives the same year. First post office: 1828.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Cherry Creek’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Cherry Creek is more historic than 72% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Cherry Creek’s overall grade.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Cherry Creek’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (10% of New York towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±16.6 points). Two sources give 1815.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Cherry Creek’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The community was first settled circa 1815, and the town of Cherry Creek was formed in 1829 from part of the town of Ellington. The settlement got its name from a cherry tree planted by Holland Land Company surveyor Joshua Bentley to mark the center of the new town. The village, which was incorporated in 1893, voted on February 2, 2017, to dissolve into the surrounding town.
Passages that mention Cherry Creek, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people1921 · page 170Read the page →
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The town of Ellington is bounded on the north by the town of Cherry Creek, on the west by the town of Gerry, south by the town of Poland, and on the east by Cattaraugus county. It is understood to have been named after Ellington in Connecticut. Most of the ♦This narrative is by Mr. Theodore A. Case.
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Historical and biographical sketch of Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York1900 · page 163Read the page →
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George H. Frost settled \\ithin what is now the village of Cherry Creek in the spring of 1823 and built the second house of logs within its limits, on the Northwest corner of Southside Ave. and Center Street, which he occupied for the numerous ]iurposes of residence, hotel, shoe shop and post-ofHce.
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Historical and biographical sketch of Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York1900 · page 68Read the page →
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George N. Frost, widely knovyn among lovers of fast horses, and as a successful farmer, was born within the limits of what is now the Village of Cherry Creek, October 21, ISSiJ, before the town of Cherry Creek was organized out of territory belonging to the town of Ellington. He is a son of the pioneer family of George IT. Frost, and might properly be termed a pioneer himself, as he was born within four years of the settlement of his father's family in the town, and when but a few acres of the primeval forest had yielded to the settler's ax. The broad cultivated fields, we now see, in this
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History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people1921 · page 369Read the page →
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The Cherry Creek National Bank had its beginning in 1890, when E. B. Crissey opened a private bank in the village of Cherry Creek, doing business as E. B. Crissey, Banker. Harlow J. Crissey was associated with this bank for some years as cashier. In 1914 the business was reorganized, and the Cherry Creek National Bank chartered with $25,000 capital. The officers are : Harold E. Crissey, president; C. L. Edwards, vice-presi-
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Cherry Creek, 1815 to 1901
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
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Then & now
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No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewHamlet (Village); Cherry Creek (Village); Cherry Creek (Village); Cherry Creek Business Directory, 1867
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Cherry Creek’s page.
In 1815, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Cherry Creek’s post office opened in 1828, and the census of 1830 counted 574 people here.
How does Cherry Creek rank for history?
Cherry Creek is more historic than 72% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Cherry Creek?
48% of Cherry Creek’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±16.6 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1952.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
![George H. Frost settled \\ithin what is now the village of Cherry Creek in the spring of 1823 and built the second house of logs within its limits, on the Northwest corner of Southside Ave. and Center Street, which he occupied for the numerous ]iurposes of residence, hotel, shoe shop and post-ofHce.](https://images.townratings.com/story/28455/bk-4adfcb845a07cafa-l.jpg)
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