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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QVF_niagara-square_Buffalo-NY.html
Niagara SquareJoseph Ellicott, agent for the Holland Land Company, surveyed and laid out this square in 1803-1804. The square and streets radiating from it remain as originally planned for the village of New Amsterdam.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QV6_charles-r-turner_Buffalo-NY.html
Charles R. Turner humanitarian, philanthropist and civic leader. Born Dec. 1, 1904. Died July 2, 1977. Chairman of the Board of Parking 1959 to 1977 Under his leadership ten municipal parking ramps were constructed.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGC_the-big-picture_Buffalo-NY.html
The background map is based on an early 20th century map surveying the canal system of New York, expanded to show the network of shipping routes that grew in the wake of the Erie Canal. There is no clearer picture of America's growing economy: the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LG9_buffalo-an-industrial-powerhouse_Buffalo-NY.html
Already a major transportation center, Buffalo was evolving into a center of industry and and manufacturing. At the height of the canal era, in the mid-1800s, countless manufacturing enterprises took advantage of the huge volume of raw materials t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFO_buffalo-a-network-of-canals_Buffalo-NY.html
Commercial Slip connected the Buffalo River to the Erie Canal mainline, 100 yards northeast of this site. It marked the original terminus of the Erie Canal, but was soon joined by many other artificial waterways around Buffalo Harbor. As commerce …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFL_the-grand-canal_Buffalo-NY.html
Skeptics dubbed the project "Clinton's Folly" and "Clinton's Ditch" when construction of the Erie Canal began near Rome on July 4, 1817, deriding both the project and its principal promoter. Things were very different by October 24, 1825 when Gove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFJ_buffalo-queen-city-of-the-lakes_Buffalo-NY.html
When the Erie Canal was completed here in October 1825, Buffalo was transformed from a small lakefront hamlet to a thriving muscular metropolis. Buffalo was the port where grain, lumber, and other products from the interior of the American contine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LER_erie-canalway-national-heritage-corridor_Buffalo-NY.html
The Erie Canal was America's most successful and influential public works project. Completed in 1825, the 363-mile-long waterway established the first all-water route for navigation between the Atlantic Ocean and the upper Great Lakes, opened the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LDQ_uss-boston-ssn703_Buffalo-NY.html
Seventh U.S. Warship named for the Capital City of Massachusetts. Commissioned 30 January 1982. Decommissioned 19 November 1999. Built by General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut. Commanding Officers 01/1982 - 08/1982 CDR J. Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LD4_buffalo-riverfront-historical-eras-to-1930_Buffalo-NY.html
Pre-1800 The Ongiara Confluence of Little Buffalo Creek and the Buffalo River with Lake Erie in the background, 1815. The region's original inhabitants were the Ongiara, a peaceful Iroquois tribe, from whom the name Niagara is derived. Long before…