Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Co
Author: William Reed Gordon
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 223
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Author: William Reed Gordon
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 223
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 236
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen G. Myers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738573717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a growing city on Lake Erie, Buffalo was considered the second largest railroad hub in the United States and earned the name of the Queen City as it became the second-largest city in the state of New York, due to the railroad's influence. Original.
Author: Lawrence A. Brough
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004-04-06
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780253343697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars, including New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Many Jewett cars found their way to Indiana and many of the interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed wood interurban that Jewett was famous for.Automobile competition and the problems of competing with much larger car builders, such as J.G. Brill and the St. Louis Car Company, signaled the beginning of the end. The company was offered the opportunity to produce munitions for World War I, but refused. The reason: the major source of finance for Jewett was a German nationalist banker from Wheeling, West Virginia, who refused to have the company do anything to harm Germany. As a direct result of that action, the Jewett Car Company failed.
Author: Frederic Nicholas
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shane E. Stephenson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467134899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Buffalo was incorporated as a city, the East Side represented a vast forested area and farmland that would one day be booming with industry. By 1832, the beginnings of the major arterials of Genesee, Sycamore, Broadway, William, Clinton, and Seneca were there. These streets were laid out in 1826 and represented the seeds of the East Side's explosive growth. The development of railroads and the Buffalo Belt Line, constructed in 1883, created a semicircle pattern that outlined the East Side. Industries began sprouting up, eager to use their proximity to the belt line to transport wares all over the country. Immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Ireland, along with African Americans from northern and southern states, began establishing their lives around these industries. Access to land, water, roads, and rail lines and eager immigrants and natives looking for work led to the development of Buffalo's East Side industry, an immensely diverse industrial base and workforce.
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brent Cassan
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 358
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 1032
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes entries for maps and atlases.