Parks & History
Cayuga Creeks runs through the Lancaster Country Club and Como Lake Park in the Town of Lancaster. The Lancaster Country Club diverts some creek water for golf course irrigation. In Como Lake Park, the creek is dammed upstream of Lake Avenue. Farther down stream the creek is an important feature in Stiglemeyer Park in the Town of Cheektowaga.
The first vessel built by Europeans to sail the upper Great Lakes, a forty-five ton barque named Le Griffon, was constructed at the mouth of Cayuga Creek in 1679 by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a French explorer, and Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan missionary priest, and "two score" followers.
After Cayuga Creek flooded the Village of Lancaster in the early 1940s, protective dikes were constructed.
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