Where is it?
Talmadge Road, between Reichert and Dunn Valley roads, is on the east side of McKean Township and south of the Interstate 79/Interstate 90 interchange.
What's the story?
Inspiration for the name likely came from James Talmadge (sometimes spelled Tallmadge in historical accounts). Starting in 1795, Talmadge sailed on a Buffalo-to-Erie freighter that carried Erie County's first residents, including Col. Seth Reed and Amos Judson. Talmadge later settled in McKean Township, around the same location where Talmadge Road is located, and was the first person in the county to grow wheat, according to "History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1."
Talmadge's daughter, Hannah, was the first white child born in the township (1798).
-- Lindsey Poisson