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DeGraff Mansion interior and exterior during rehabilitation, photo set (2023-09-25, Dennis Reed Jr).jpg

Myles Joyce to seek 7th term, Buttermilk case, article (Tonawanda News, 1969-06-18.pdf

The so-called "Buttermilk Trial" of Mayor Myles Joyce (who is pulled over for drunk driving, and claims he was drinking only buttermilk) appears to…
Closure of North Tonawanda Pool is the end of an era, article (Samantha Christmann, Buffalo News, 2023).htm

As a kid in North Tonawanda, every summer morning in 1988 was the same ritual. I would stretch on my purple swimsuit, still damp from the night…
Bintz Pool examples from other cities, photos.jpg

Wesley Bintz made a career out of building municipal swimming pools across the United States. These examples show how the basic design was adapted to…
Estate has deadline to remove Ken's Hot Dog Stand from Payne Memorial Pool property, article (Tonawanda News, 1978-06-08).jpg

On the Avenues and Beyond by John Kolecki, 2007, book review (Dennis Reed Jr, 2023).htm

It’s disorienting to contemplate how different the Avenues would have appeared to young Master Kolecki in 1925. If you’ve seen photographs of the era,…
The Town of Wheatfield (Landmarks of Niagara County, 1897).pdf

CHAPTER XXII.
THE TOWN OF WHEATFIELD.
Wheatfield is the last town organized in Niagara County, and was set off from Niagara May 12, 1836. It…
Theodore S Fassett, owner of Tonawanda Island, dead at 60, 420 Linwood Ave, article (1908-09-02).jpg

Find live toad incarcerared in cement block during Market Hotel demolition, article (Tonawanda News, 1932-08-01).jpg

Contract let, Public Market must be completed not later than July 15, article (Tonawanda News, 1908-05-13).jpg

All is ready for the (informal) opening (of the public market), article (Tonawanda News, 1908-08-12).jpg

Alleged grave of Hannah Johnson, Sweeney Cemetery, photo (NOT her grave), photo (Dennis Reed Jr, 2012.jpg

Identified by an old-timer as her grave. Not believed to be true.
Public Market, North Tonawanda, postcard (c1910).jpg

North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works in the background before its 1911 expansion.
Souvenir history of Niagara County, New York - Commemorative of the 25th anniversary of the Pioneer Association of Niagara County (1902).pdf

North Tonawanda and Martinsville, map detail (1875, Beers Atlas of Niagara and Orleans).jpg

Carney's Island, Distillery, Ayer Estate, Fisher, Cap. o. Shepard, Rosebrock, Kibber, Roney, A. Jerbitz, Zimmerman, Rumbolt, Dreggs, Nutting, J.…