Did you know…

That an underground railroad station was located where the Sunset Hill Cemetery now is?

That the Stoneman Farm was the ancestral home of Major General George Stoneman who was born on the old homestead in 1822 and was graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1846?

That Major General Stoneman was elected Governor of California on the Democratic ticket in 1883?

That there was a sanitarium in Lakewood for the Keeley Cure located on Summit Street between Oakland and Crescent Avenues?

That Lakewood High School had the first illuminated football field for night football in Western New York and one of the first in the country?

That Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novelist, was entertained one night in Lakewood when he was en route to Chautauqua for a speaking engagement?

That Carrie Nation of Temperance fame in the early 1900's transferred from the Erie depot in Lakewood to the boat landing en route to Chautauqua?

That Bob Ingersoll, the famous agnostic, once spoke in Lakewood in a tent erected on the corner of Chautauqua and Summit Avenues to a huge crowd of people who had come to hear him denounce the Bible?

That the architect for the Kent House, Edward Austin Kent, died in the Titanic disaster of April 15, 1912 after helping many of his fellow passengers to safety?

That Lakewood's first Village Clerk, Alpheus Hodges, achieved immortality by firing the first shot in the Battle of Gettysburg?

That Perry Nichols, another Lakewoodite, captured the first prisoner in the Battle of Gettysburg and is commemorated by a marker at Gettysburg?