Hamlet of Brickhouse Corners

Route 5 & Route 77

Brick House Corners is so named because in the early 1800s John and James Richardson settled at the crossroads of two Indian trails, Old Buffalo Road and Indian Road or Allegheny Trail (now Routes 5 and 77). At the southeast corner (where the Pembroke Junior-Senior High School stands) they built a log structure to be used as a tavern. The people fleeing from the burning of Buffalo in 1813 took refuge here. DeWitt Clinton and his party stayed here in 1815 on their way to Batavia to discuss plans for the Erie Canal.

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