Farnham, NY

Farnham is a village in Brant, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 381 residents. Farnham is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The village is named after Leroy Farnham, a local landowner and merchant. The short version is that Farnham carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Farnham: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Farnham is located in the western part of Brant, north of the Cattaraugus Reservation and southeast of Evangola State Park. The Village of Farnham was incorporated in 1892, having been built up around the Lake Shore Railroad. Farnham is at the junction of New York State Route 5 and New York State Route 249.