Buffalo Railroads
Buffalo Railroads

Author: Stephen G. Myers

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738573717

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

As 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.

From Small Town to Downtown
From Small Town to Downtown

Author: Lawrence A. Brough

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-04-06

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780253343697

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 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.

Buffalo's East Side Industry
Buffalo's East Side Industry

Author: Shane E. Stephenson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467134899

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When 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.