Tonawanda Iron & Steel, photo (1896, HST).jpg
1896
Tonawanda Iron Works, postcard (1909).jpg
1909
Avenues, Payne Estate, future Mid-City Plaza, aerial photo (1938).jpg
<a href="https://niagara-county.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html">https://niagara-county.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html</a>
1938
47 Fifteenth Ave., aerial photo (1938).jpg
Many of the upper east avenues were still unoccupied in 1938.
https://niagara-county.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html
1938
INSIDE photo tour of former Gilmore School, North Tonawanda (2023).jpg
The Board of Education is now headquartered in the southern part of the building, while the Christian Academy uses the original section. The repurposed elementary school retains many of its original interior features. Pictured are the cafeteria, gymnasium, the "breezeway" (which connected the original and new sections), the boys' bathroom, the principal's office door and sign, the original entrance from the inside, a renovated kindergarten classroom, and the northwest entrance. <br /><br />Two historic keepsakes from other former North Tonawanda schools are on display: the bell from the demolished Ironton School (according to my tour guide), and a stone salvaged from the 1866 Goundry Street School. The school in the photo accompanying the bell doesn't look like the Ironton School to me, but I may be wrong. According to this <a href="http://www.nthistory.com/items/show/1477">1905 article,</a> the bell hung in the area's first district school (later the site of the parsonage of the 1st M.E. Church) from 1831 until the 1870s, then was used a few years later in a second district school at the corner of Dahlgren and Wheatfield, before moving to the Ironton School in 1890.
2023-03-08
East side of Oliver Street not built up much past 3rd Avenue, 1908 map detail.jpg
1908
Ironton addition, Payne bio, North Tonawanda Land Co., description (excerpt from the book, North Tonawanda and Tonawanda - The Lumber City, 1891).jpg
1891-03
Tonawanda Iron and Steel, postcard (c.1905).jpg
1905
Oliver Street photo collection (1947).jpg
1947
Works of the Buffalo Bolt Plant, illustration (Greater Buffalo NY Industrial Commercial, 1914).jpg
1914
Nemesis Still Pursues Smoyer, Ironton Poles, article (Tonawanda News, 1901-11-01).jpg
1901-11-01
Buffalo Pumps, ad (Tonawanda News, 1930-02-26).jpg
1930-02-26
Ironton village, map detail (D.G. Beers & Co., 1875).jpg
1875
Tonawanda Iron and Steel Works, postcard (1910).jpg
1910
Gillie Place, map detail (1908).jpg
1908
Big Fire at Tonawanda, Gillie Goddard destroyed, article (Democrat and Chronicle, 1896-06-06).jpg
1896-06-06
Gillie, Goddard and Company (Sanborn Insurance Map, 1893).jpg
Gillie Place was west of Oliver Street, just a little north of where 14th Ave would later intersect with Oliver.
1893
Our Lady of Czestochowa, yearbook photos (1945).jpg
Includes photos and a history of the Polish settlement in North Tonawanda.
1945
Tonawanda Iron and Steel, SS Jupiter, postcard (c1910).jpg
1910
Goundry, Ironton and Gratwick schools, Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, excerpt (1884).jpg
1884
Topolski Restaurant, 747 Oliver, photo (c1980).jpg
1980
Sikora's Hotel, 468 Oliver, matchbook (c1940).jpg
1940
Our Lady of Czestochowa, postcard (c1920).jpg
1920
Litwin's Trade Token, 671 Oliver (c1950).jpg
1950
Ernie Green's Grill, 596 Oliver, matchbook (c1955).jpg
1955
Deluxe Lanes, T-shirt (c1980).jpg
1980
Gratwick, Wurlitzer, Martinsville, Ironton, neighborhood sketches (Dennis Reed Jr, 2016).jpg
2016
North Tonawanda neighborhoods, illustrated map by Dennis Reed Jr (2016).jpg
The product of historical research, community feedback, and my own imagination.
2016-11
Ironton Public School No 2, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910).jpg
1910
Marion, Schenk, Oliver area, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg
1913
Tonawanda Iron and Steel, Niagara furnace, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg
1913
Residence of Col. L.S. Payne, illustration (History of Niagara County, 1821-1878).jpg
Wheatfield Street in foreground, looking north up Payne Ave.
1878
Tonawanda Iron and Steel Works, postcard (1912).jpg
1912
Tonawanda Iron and Steel, postcard (1907).jpg
1907
Buffalo Sled Company, ad (Popular Science, 1920-06).jpg
1920-06
Buffalo Sled Company, ad (Popular Science, 1920-05).jpg
1920-05
Buffalo Sled Company, ad (Popular Science, 1920-04).jpg
1920-04
Buffalo Sled Company, ad (Popular Science, 1919-06).jpg
1919-06
Buffalo Sled Company, Auto Wheel Roadster ad (Popular Science, 1918-10).jpg
1918-10
Buffalo Sled Company, ad (Popular Science, 1912).jpg
1912
Buffalo Sled Co - Auto Wheel Coaster, Christmas ad (c1912).jpg
1912
Buffalo Sled Co - Auto Wheel Coaster, ad (c1915).jpg
1915
Buffalo Sled Co - Auto Wheel - still bank (c1915).jpg
1915
Auto Wheel Coaster Co., ad (c1920).jpg
1920
North Tonawanda, northwestern, hi-res, map (1908).jpg
1908
Ascension Roman Catholic Church, postcard (1907).jpg
Notice the trolley tracks in the road.
1907