Reading Room
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Title
Reading Room
Description
Interesting articles and excerpts from longer works. Make sure you check out our Books section for full-length works pertaining to local history.
Items
Early sketch of Tonawanda (Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York, 1849).jpg
Briefly mentions slow start of the area due to flooding problems, and the importance of the state ditches of 1840. Also: exhaustion of local "fine…
Description of Village of Tonawanda, book excerpt (Commerce, Manufactures and Resources of Buffalo and Environs, 1880).jpg
General progress and development to date. Lumber feet by year. Accounts of Tonawanda Herald and Index, as well as many lumber concerns such as J. A.…
50 Percent Increase, article about local industry (Tonawanda News, 1896-04-18).jpg
The number of employees in local factories is said to double in one year. A list gives figures for all the major local industries, including…
Violators of Raines Law, article (Tonawanda News, 1896-05-16).jpg
New "hotels" go up in the Tonawandas, allegedly to evade recent Raines laws.
Parnell and Tonawanda Tug of War, article (Tonawanda News, 1897-09-07).jpg
Two tugs battle for supremacy.
Central Must Pay for Death of Loeschnauer off swing bridge, article (Tonawanda News, 1907-05-11).jpg
