After riding along the shore of Lake Erie and making a stop at Dunkirk Lighthouse, it was time for lunch.  I had heard about the town of Fredonia in one of my travel books, so we made a little detour.  It was lunchtime and Jerry had a massive migraine.  Time to stop and let him regroup and, hopefully, get over his headache. 

We weren't disappointed.  The White Inn is a beautiful turn-of-the-century home that has been lovingly restored and maintained over the years.  It is now a Bed and Breakfast, but it does offer lunch and dinner on certain days of the week.  While we sat on the large covered porch of the mansion, we enjoyed watching all the motorcycles come and go up and down Main Street in front of the Inn.  In my mind I couldn't help but think, "I wonder where they are coming from and where they are going?" 

Lunch was delicious and Jerry recovered nicely from his headache.  It's amazing what a little caffeine and Aleve can do!!  Now it was time to head out for the world-famous Niagara Falls.

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Fredonia is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

The Village of Fredonia is in the Town of Pomfret south of Lake Erie. The village borders the City of Dunkirk and is the home of the State University of New York Fredonia (in the northwest part of the village).

The area which is now Fredonia was most likely first occupied by early Mound Builders, then the Eries (13th to 17th centuries), then the Iroquois and Senecas.. In 1791, Robert Morris purchased the Fredonia land from Massachusetts and sold it to the Holland Land Company.

Parcels were sold to pioneers around 1800, and the first settlers came around 1803 or 1804.

In 1821, William Hart dug the first successful gas well in what is now the Village of Fredonia. It supplied enough natural gas for lights in two stores, two shops and a grist mill (Now currently the village's Fire Station) by 1825. Expanding on Hart's work, the Fredonia Gas Light Company was eventually formed in 1858, becoming the first American natural gas company. The site of the first gas well is marked by a stone monument in downtown Fredonia.

The Village of Fredonia was incorporated in 1829. The original name for the area was Canadaway (from the Indian word Ganadawao, meaning among the hemlocks). The name "Fredonia" was coined by Samuel Latham Mitchill, coupling the English word "freedom" with a Latin ending. He proposed it as a replacement name for the United States. It failed in that regard, but became the name of many towns and cities.

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