tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68547301781712314782024-10-08T21:35:00.973-04:00Bringing you all the updated news of Buffalo's past. Time travel through Buffalo history as old news becomes new again.Jerry M Malloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04653949516092546466noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6854730178171231478.post-62664599667389344842013-06-30T16:08:00.000-04:002013-07-01T20:44:06.412-04:00

  In 1917, Buffalo had awaited with keen interest the President's message which was read in Congress on April 2nd. It was generally anticipated that it would be a war message; most of the people, though not anxious, were ready for a declaration of hostilities.  Scene in a Buffalo School Yard   The young men especially had caught the enthusiasm of the

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What happened in Buffalo History on Your Birthday?    A historic souvenir Calendar/book commemorating Buffalo's Sesquicentennial in 1982. Put together by myself and a friend of mine in the days before computers, it portrays Buffalo History in short snippets on every date of the year.   (see sample pages below) Photographs of Buffalo both old and new(1982) in color are in

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Buffalo Harbor Around 1888 In the history of Buffalo there has been nothing to match the building of the first harbor here as an exhibition of public spirit and a demonstration of what powerful leadership can do for the Community.   The pier was completed, and the creek carried by a new and straight, although shallow, channel into the lake. The fact that the pier built in 1820 had

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Partial View of Buffalo Harbor in 1888 The development of Buffalo as a city has been inseparable from the development of its harbor. The building of that harbor was a turning point in Buffalo's fortunes unlike any subsequent event in the City's history.     The winter was bitter. Storms beat with unremitting fury against the newly built pier. Snow fell upon snow. The

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Buffalo From the Light House In all Buffalo's history no event was so significant to the future welfare of the city as the building of the first harbor. This task, carried on despite tremendous physical and economic obstacles, was an act of civic zeal unmatched in the later annals of the city.     THE exact date in which the harbor work was begun is not on record, but

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The Walk-In-The-Water.....built in Black Rock, spurred Buffalo ambitions. The small group of citizens who overcame tremendous physical and economic obstacles to construct Buffalo's first harbor laid the foundations for this city's future greatness....Without them, Buffalo would have remained just another frontier village.    THE PLAN to Make the Village of Buffalo a great

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In it’s pioneer days Buffalo was a Village without natural advantages or economic prospects. Then a harbor was built and it became the key-stone upon which the Village grew to greatness, becoming a City in 1832, and one of the largest ports in the world 75 years later.  The building of that harbor by Samuel Wilkeson and a small group of citizens, is a story of heroic vision and

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  The year 1825 was one of the most memorable of Buffalo's early years. In it occurred notable events, and many evidences that the future of Buffalo was bright. "Since the close of the war, no such eventful twelve-month period had ever passed over the county of Erie." A State census was taken in June, 1825, and showed the population of Erie county then to be 24,316. The

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Central High School 65 Court St. between Franklin & Niagara Square     Buffalo was the first city in the state(1838) to establish a free public school system. The Central High School (above) fought to save itself from taxpayers trying to have it abolished.     The original High School on this site was actually in the Burt House formally occupied by General

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  The Ladies were a bit reluctant to attend the first Erie County Fair, in 1841, so officials announced: "Constables will be on grounds to preserve order and the visits of the ladies will be welcomed to the exhibition." Old Courthouse Where The First Annual Erie County Fair was Held in 1841.  Lafayette Square. Cleared Away 1876   Thus reassured, the ladies tied on there bonnets,

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Rassle Champ of 1888 Hasn't Yielded His Throne     It took 89 years to pin Dennis Gallagher. Dinny Gallagher, the First Ward Irishman, was a magic name in the 1880's and '90's throughout the world. He was famous in Paris. He was the toast of London. He was a 165 pound Buffalo Irishman who met every heavyweight wrestling challenger in the world. And won...  January 15,

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  The Larkin Building was designed in 1904 by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Larkin Soap Company of Buffalo, New York, at 680 Seneca Street.  The five story red brick building was noted for many innovations, including air conditioning, stained glass windows, built-in desk furniture, and suspended toilet bowls (hung from the walls, not supported by the floor). Sculptor Richard Bock

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  FIX BROTHERS RISE FROM  POVERTY TO RULE RIVER CLANS Courier October 27, 1925 The Clarence Fix Ferry They were reputed "rum barons" of the Niagara Frontier;  one time fish pirates; owners of a score of boats, including two submarine chasers, a speedy motor craft and a $65,000 steel ferry; hated and feared; admired and liked--that's the Fix Brothers as they were known to

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Range Light located at Busti & Niagara Street Courier Express  November 17 1931    Demolition of two old lighthouses which have outlived their usefulness has begun in Buffalo yesterday. One located at Niagara Street and Busti Avenue, is known as the Upper Range, and the other on the bird Island Pier near the foot of Massachusetts Ave., is called the Lower Range.

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Courier Express ~ February 26 1939    Hertel Avenue stretches from Niagara Street to Main Street across North Buffalo for four miles. It is named for John Stephen Hertel, former county supervisor from the old twelfth ward, one of three owners of the tract of land, now Riverside Park, and founder of the Black Rock Businessmen's Association, the first local organization for

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The Upper Crèche and Pound   The Fitch Crèche, nationally recognized as the first day care center for the children of working women in the United States, one which would serve as a model to be emulated by other American cities.  It was the first to implement a Froebel Kindergarten in the U.S.     Maria M. Love was a prominent Buffalonian and social

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In an Old Buffalo Castle, Modern Acting Was Born The Castle - Later, Part of Old Fort Porter    In the Old Castle that overlooked the bluff facing Lake Erie and Niagara River, on June 6, 1842, was born to James and Emily Steele MacKaye, a son named James Steele MacKaye. Known later by his stage name, Steele MacKaye, he is likely the greatest unknown theater inventor, playwright,

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"Greater Buffalo" A City Beautiful From Lake to the Falls Assemblyman Quinn's Bill Provides For New County and Municipality Taking in Niagara Falls, the Tonawanda's, and Other Towns Comprised in Territory of More Than 25 Miles--Many Improvements. _________________________________________________________ GRAND ISLAND USED FOR INSTITUTIONS

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  All but forgotten today is Buffalo's own "Civil War." It was a time 192 years ago that squatters living on Grand Island set themselves up as a sovereign nation, elected their own governor, issued their own currency and stoutly resisted all efforts to bring them into the Union.    Grand Island Around 1825   The State of New York, by a treaty held with the Seneca

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"The desired spot in the State of New York to which I hereby invite my beloved people throughout the world, in common with those of every religious denomination, is called Grand Island, and on which I shall lay the foundation of a City of Refuge, to be called ARARAT" -  Mordecai Manuel Noah "Hear, O' Israel, The Lord is our God-The Lord is One.  ARARAT, a City of Refuge for the Jews,

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Joseph Dart   No Buffalonian could be more deserving of having a street named in his honor than the late Joseph Dart, inventor of the grain elevator. For Mr. Dart refused to patent his invention, preferring that it should be his gift to humanity. His spirit of service and humanitarianism would have been remarkable at anytime, but was especially so back in 1842, when his invention

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Watch the full episode. See more Ken Burns. Buffalo Morning Express, Friday April 19, 1861  SUMTER  Written Expressly for the Express  ---------------------------  I thought of Sumter all the night;  Of those beleaguered few  Who stood up nobly in the fight  For loyalty and freedom's right,   Against the recreant crew.  I saw

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   Some histories tell us that the first white settler to build within what is now the city of Buffalo was Chabert Joncaire, who established a settlement on Buffalo Creek in 1758 under the orders of the Governor of French Canada. Chabert Joncaire was neither white nor  Indian. He was the son of the famed Louis Thomas de Chabert, a Frenchman of illustrious lineage, and a

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Commentary: Why Not Here?   Quaker Square Inn - Akron Ohio    Just a few driving hours away from Buffalo in Akron Ohio lies one of the best examples of grain elevator re-use when the option of grain storage is no longer viable. They had one grain elevator in Akron near downtown and after it closed there was a grand transformation to the site. Demolition, a Buffalo

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Run by Falls PowerStreet Cars Operated by the New CurrentSUCCESS OF THE TRANSMISSION WAS COMPLETELY AND FULLY DEMONSTRATED YESTERDAY-USED ON THE MAINAND EAST FERRY STREET LINES Buffalo Express/Commercial Advertiser Nov. 19 1896  The cars of the Buffalo Railway Company began yesterday to move by water-power. The mighty energy of Niagara Falls, harnessed to turbine wheels, and

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