CEMETERIES
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CUBA CEMETERY
In the early nineteenth century, Cuba was a growing community, serving as a stopping point where pioneers heading west on the Alleghany River could spend the winter and stock up on supplies before making their journey in spring. Construction of the Erie Railroad and Genesee Valley Canal in the 1830s-1850s improved Cuba’s prospects by linking it to more distant markets.
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NORTH CUBA CEMETERY
The North Cuba Cemetery located on Smith Road just off Route 305 North is at the base of the Cuba Lake Dam. It is believed that some of the graves had been moved there when Cuba Lake Reservoir was created as a feeder for the Genesee Valley Canal in the 1850’s. There are about 100 burials with the earliest believed to be 1831. Among the soldier dead who rest there are four men who fought in the Revolutionary War. Several individuals who served during the war of 1812 and the Civil War are also interred there.
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OUR LADY OF ANGELS CATHOLIC CEMETERY
On December 24, 1855 Our Lady of Angels Parish purchased a half-acre lot from Lewis Nash and his wife for a burial ground on the east side of and adjacent to the Cuba Cemetery on Cemetery Street, later to be known as Medbury Avenue. When that parcel became full, the parish decided to purchase the property on the eastern edge of the Village on old East Main Street. The property was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Webster in November of 1912. In 1962 the State of New York acquired part of the grounds for the new Cuba to Friendship Road, known as Allegany County Route 20.
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