The famous agnostic, once spoke in Lakewood in a tent erected on the corner of Chautauqua and Summit Avenues to a huge crowd of people who had come to hear him denounce the Bible.
Carrie Nation
That Carrie Nation of Temperance fame in the early 1900’s transferred from the Erie depot in Lakewood to the boat landing en route to Chautauqua.
Rudyard Kipling
That Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novelist, was entertained one night in Lakewood when he was en route to Chautauqua for a speaking engagement.
Lakewood High School
That Lakewood High School had the first illuminated football field for night football in Western New York and one of the first in the country.
Lakewood Sanitarium
That there was a sanitarium in Lakewood for the Keeley Cure located on Summit Street between Oakland and Crescent Avenues
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