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"Fowlerville" simply doesn't appear in any of the original sources, even for the Town of Concord. I wonder where wiki got their information? It would not be the first time that they've reported incorrect information. I had a devil of a time getting to correct some misinformation about a prominent cousin of mine who was recently killed in a plane crash. They preferred to accept as their source of information an un-named "neighbor" of my cousin's, as reported in the paper, rather than directly from her brother and sisters through me!
Given the township, I was able to find a cluster of buildings on Lot 16, Twp. 6, Range 6, just south of the line between Boston and Concord. There is one "S. Fowler" listed at one of the houses, and "S.T. Fowler" at a store next to it. This is what must've been meant as "Fowlerville." The source is the Stone & Stewart Atlas of Erie County, p. 39. The place has no name at all, and is not included in the maps of the hamlets in the town.
The 1880 county atlas shows merely "S.T." connected to one of the buildings there, and the place seems to have degenerated considerably. Again, there are hamlet maps, but none for "Fowlerville" and the name is not used on the map of the town from which I took this information.
The index for the 1855 NYS census for Erie County shows the following Fowlers in Concord:
Fowler, Sumner, 56, NH, Farmer
wife Sophia, 49, NH
child Sullivan 21, N.H. farmer
" Mary A., 13, Erie Co.
" Helen, 11, "
Fowler, Thomas, 28, N.H., tanner
wife Harnet [Harriet?] 24, Erie Co.
I consulted "the Bible" for that area, Erasmus Briggs' History of the Original Town of Concord(Rochester,1883, republished by June P. Zintz with an all-name index in 1992.) This work runs to 1078 pages, and there is no mention of S. or S.T. Fowler or Fowlerville. Among the list of merchants over the history of the town of Concord, however, there are the names of Thomas Fowler and "Mrs. Fowler," with no further information as to place or date. Otherwise there are only two other references to Fowlers, two women, one who is mentioned as the wife of one of the sons in the history of another family and the other who attended a school reunion. I was very disappointed because this is an encylopedic source for that area.
Pitt Petri is usually the acid test. Even small hamlets or places considered hamlets had post offices. The Fowler store would've been the place for the post office, and I could see that if Fowler kept the store and P.O. the place might have been given his name, but it just doesn't seem to be so. (Petri did extensive archival work in Washington, pouring through the list of postmaster appointments for all eight counties in WNY, listing their names and dates of appointment, and the annual post office directories which named each post office and its postmaster.)It would seem that the people on Lot 16 received their mail from Boston, which was convenient.
I just consulted another "Bible"-- the Gazetteer of the State of New York by J.H. French, Syracuse, 1860. It lists a Fowlerville in the Town of York in Livingston County, N.Y. (p,387)
I hope this helps. If you can come up with some documentation on "Fowlerville" I would be interested, since by late friend Mrs. Zintz had compiled a list of place names for WNY and it should be included in her list, but she insisted on documentation-- a particular map, atlas, or book.
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