Forestville, NY

Forestville is a hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The 2010 census counted 697 residents. The hamlet is within Hanover and in the northeast part of the county. Forestville was an incorporated village from 1848 to 2016. The Forestville Fall Festival, formerly known as the Forestville Apple Festival, is held yearly, the first weekend in October. Forestville features products from the apple harvest, a craft fair, parade, special events, and a harvest dinner. A newcomer can read Forestville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Forestville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The first settlers were the Tupper brothers in 1805. The community began in 1808 as "Walnut Falls". Walnut Creek is joined by Tupper Brook north of the hamlet and flows northward to Lake Erie.