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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18IM_albert-james-myer-m-d_Buffalo-NY.html
Surgeon - Brigadier General - Inventor of the 'Wig-Wag' signal system - First director of the Army Signal Corps - Founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau - U.S. Delegate to the International Meteorological Conferences of Vienna, Austria, 1873 & Rome, I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17VA_guide-board-road_Buffalo-NY.html
Directing Pioneers coming from the east to Black Rock Ferry
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13OT_west-seneca-gatling-gun_Buffalo-NY.html
Model 1897 10 Barrels 30 Caliber #1075Built by Colt Firearms Mfg. Co. Delivered to the U.S. Army August 29, 1898Donated to West Seneca In 1922Supervisor Henry C. LeinRestored in 2003 By Ron Fultz Roger HarrisEd Kowalewski Rich Raimers Supervisor P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12QR_joncaire-trading-post_Buffalo-NY.html
Near here the FrenchmanChabert Joncaire in 1758set up the first whiteestablishment on the siteof Buffalo.Evacuated 1759 at the approachof the British.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PZ_black-rock-harbor_Buffalo-NY.html
Black Rock HarborJune 1823
Designated as the western mostPort of the Erie Canal forTransfer of passengers and cargo
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PM_squaw-island-divided-island_Buffalo-NY.html
Named Squaw Island by the men of LaSalle's expedition in 1679, this island was called Divided Island, "De-dyo-we-no-guh-doh," by the Senecas, referring to a division by marshy creek known as "Smuggler's Run." Presented by the Seneca Nation to Capt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PC_burning-of-blackrock-and-buffalo_Buffalo-NY.html
Early in the morning of December 30, 1813 over 1,000 British troops landed near the foot of present-day Amherst Street and proceeded to burn Black Rock, destroying all homes and buildings. They then marched to Buffalo and burned everything except …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12P7_the-site-of-fort-tompkins_Buffalo-NY.html
The largest and mostimportant fortificationon the American shorein or near Buffaloduring the War of 1812
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12OV_the-pan-american-exposition_Buffalo-NY.html
Extending one mile north from Delaware Park Lake, between Elmwood and Delaware Avenues, the Pan-American Exposition was a spectacular sight to over eight million visitors from May 1 to November 2, 1901. Ornate buildings, embellished with decorated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX36_christian-ulrich_Buffalo-NY.html
Born 1839 Dec. 12 Died 1906 March 21On April 26, 1865 3 miles from Port Royal Virginia, Private Ulrich, one of 25 men of Company E - 16th New York (Lincoln's Avenger) Cavalry, captured John Wilkes Booth the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.