FREDONIA, village of Chautauqua county, New York, U.S.A., 45m. S.W. of Buffalo and 3m. from Lake Erie at Dunkirk. It is on Federal highway 20, and is served by the New York Cen tral railroad. The population in 193o was 5,814. It is in the grape growing and nursery region of western New York, and ships annually over 6,000,000 grape roots, 2,500,000 berry bushes, and large quantities of seeds. Grape-juice and other grape products and canned fruits and vegetables are the principal manufactured products. It is the seat of a State normal school (est. 1867) and of a branch of the State agricultural experiment station. Fredonia was settled in 1804, and until 1817 was called Canandaway. It was incorporated in 1829. A gas well (the first in the United States) was drilled here in 1821, and supplied enough gas to light the streets. It was piped to the tavern for use on the occasion of Lafayette's visit in 1825. The first grange of the order of the Patrons of Husbandry was established in Fredonia in 1867; and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union movement began with the organization here of a local union in