Fredonia, a village in the town of Pomfret, Chautauqua co., New York, on the Dunkirk, Alleghany Valley, and Pittsburgh railroad, about 3 m. from Dunkirk; pop. in 1870, 2,546. There is a spring of natural gas in the vicinity, which is used to light the village. It is the seat of a state normal school, which has a model school attached, and in 1872 had 16 instructors, 179 students, and a library of 2,025 volumes. There are 4 flour mills, a saw and turning mill, a planing mill, a foundery, 3 manufactories of carriages, 1 of patent medicines, a national bank, 3 hotels, 2 weekly newspapers, and 5 churches.