Counties Cooperate to Push Tourism from the Saturday, September 25th, 1999 issue of The Post-Journal
The move involved Chautauqua County Rails-to-Trails, headed by Less Johnson, and Southern Tier Association for Rails-to-Trails with Bradley P. Walters as chairman.
They emphasized the action in intended to form sister trails for mutual support and momentum as each project expands and unfolds.
"Our cooperative activities have helped coordinate an effort to acquire much needed maintenance and development tools that ensure our projects' success," Walters said.
"The Learning Center is Falconer has helped immensely with this effort," he said.
Walters noted the Rails-to-Trails associations are presently involved in an extensive mapping project for Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties to create a coordinated map for recreational trail users and tourism within the counties.
He said the Southern Tier organization's steering committee has just completed and submitted a Recreation Trail program Grant requested for $80,000.
Walters said that if approved the funding will be used for planning, safety equipment, picnic tables, self-contained bathrooms, maintenance equipment and beautification program for a demonstration project in Little Valley.
He said the proposed project includes a Friendship Arch at the end of Main Street, along with placing a refurbished railroad caboose nearby for use as an information/tourism center.
Walters said the steering committee also has designated the Cattaraugus County walkway as "Iroquois Recreational Trail".
He said the name was chosen as much for its ability to invoke a mysticism for the trail and the region as well as for its historical and geographical importance.
Walters said the Iroquois Confederation was formed in 1570 of five Iroquois-speaking North American Indian tribes - the Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida and Onondaga - known as the League of the Iroquois or the Five Nations.
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