Welcome to Cheektowaga – a great city with a strange name. The name of Cheektowaga originates from the Erie-Seneca Indian word, Ji-ik-do-wah-gah, or "place of the crabapple tree." The earliest Indian dwellers were Neuters, who lost their lands to the Seneca tribe of the League of the Iroquois. For almost a century, this area remained hunting and fishing grounds of the Six Nations.

By Civil War time railroad lines bisected the town. The railroad boom that followed brought a new era of development to the town. The era of the electric trolley brought about further subdivision booms in the town. During the 1920's a new form of transportation came to Cheektowaga. The Buffalo Municipal Airport brought air age to the town. Cheektowaga with its fine air, highway and railroad facilities was a natural place for industries to come.

Each year has brought further expansion of utilities and services within the township. This in turn attracts further industrial and residential growth.

In 1939, when Cheektowaga celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as a town, the population was 25,000. In 1950 the census reported 45,354 and in the 1960 census Cheektowaga's population reached the 84,056 mark. The 1990 census showed Cheektowaga at 99,000 residents.

Cheektowaga has become, still is, and will be one of the most progressive townships in New York State. Its residents and businesses have had faith in its past and look forward to the town's bright future.<