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I've found "Fowlerville" on a map! It's on the map of the Town of Concord, p.109, in the New Century Atlas of Erie County, 1909. There are maybe a dozen buildings there, mostly homes but a store near the center and a cheese factory on the "outskirts." LOL. The map maker really got carried away in Concord, giving fancy names to a number of the larger FARMS, and "Woodchuck Knoll" appears on the west side to Fowlerville. (There is a wind-swept hill there, with nothing on it, but he gave it a name!) Several other hamlets appear whose names are only remembered by the names of roads. I've driven through "Fowlerville" many times to visit a friend who lives about a mile away, and he's never heard of it either.
I went on a drive Sunday afternoon from Clarence to Akron and passed what we used to call "Sand Hill," and "Limerick" on the way. I'm sure neither is known today by the residents there, and neither ever appeared on a map. (I believe there may have been a West Shore RR train-halt at Limerick at one time, but even the tracks have been taken up.)
These are names known only to old locals and I think the map maker in 1909 may have recorded such informal names. They come and go and are forgotten in time. Fowlerville probably disappeared as a name when the store or the cheese factory closed and people went to Boston to shop etc.
At least we know where Google Earth (or whichever) got the name!
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