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Gratwick, Smith and Fryer Lumber Co., promotional booklet (1880).jpg
This illustrated booklet details the business of the Gratwick, Smith and Fryer Lumber Company, showing how they were able to be successful by controlling all phases of lumber cutting, transporting and refining for market. Their Tonawanda dock, yards…

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The Lumber District, postcard.jpg
A view from the southern portion of a lumber-bedecked Tonawanda Island across the "Little (Niagara) River" onto a lumber-bedecked North Tonawanda.

Farm residence of E. A. Milliman, Esq., illustration (History of Niagara County, 1821-1878).jpg
House still stands at 2525 River Road. River Bitt Rentals, former Demler Cider Mill.

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Birds-eye view of some of the dockage at Twin Cities, postcard (1908).jpg
Manhattan Street is in the foreground. Just beyond is some of that famous lumber (Dodge & Bliss and J. W Scribner are two firms who stacked it here), and the swing bridge connecting to North Tonawanda to Tonawanda's "Goose Island." The little…
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