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Tugboat in a lock on the Erie Canal. The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area in New York State. [1] It has created signage in a wide area, including placing signs many miles away from any historic site of the Erie Canal. [citation needed] The corridor includes 34 National historic landmarks and 234 local ...
Julia Boyer Reinstein (November 3, 1906 – July 18, 1998) was an American teacher and historian who grew up in western New York and began her career teaching in Deadwood, South Dakota. After more than a decade of teaching, she became a founder of the Erie County Historical Federation and the first historian of Cheektowaga, New York.
County and City Hall, also known as Erie County Hall, is a historic city hall and courthouse building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York.It is a monumental granite structure designed by Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner and constructed between 1871 and 1875, with its cornerstone being laid on June 24, 1872.
The Erie area's more than 100-year reign as a major iron product manufacturing center began with the discovery of major bog iron deposits in the early 1800s along the shores of Presque Isle Bay ...
Marker name [1] Image Date designated Location City or Town Marker text; 1: Main Street: State Route #9, South Road Amherst, New York: Surveyed in 1799 by Joseph Ellicott along the line of the old "Central Trail" from Albany, was an early stagecoach route and wagon trail to the West.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, New York. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude ...
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795.
Elmwood Historic District–East is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Erie County, New York.The district encompasses 2,405 contributing buildings, 31 contributing structures, and 14 contributing objects in the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo.