CLASSIC WATERWAYS OF BUFFALO:

The  Western Terminus of the Erie Canal

The streets and waterways of the canal district from 1884 
overlaid on a 2007 aerial view of the area

A great source of maps, pictures, and stories of the area is the book by Michael N. Vogel, Ed Patton, and Paul Redding titled: America's Crossroads, Buffalo's Canal Street/ Dante Place: The Making of a City. New York: Western New York Heritage Institute, Canisius College, 1993. 

*NEW* Dec 9, 2007 BUFFALO CREEK 1866-2007

ERIE CANAL TERMINUS-to Genessee Street

 w/ Coit Slip, Slips #1 & 2  & More

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THE HAMBURG CANAL PAGE
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THE ERIE CANAL FROM

TONAWANDA TO BUFFALO
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 Entire Canal Route from Tonawanda to Buffalo

Canal from Tonawanda to Buffalo

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The canal route from Tonawanda

Creek to the Terminus in Buffalo

* NEW * Cornelius Creek - North Buffalo 1872-2007

North Buffalo was farmlands in 1872

when this waterway followed Hertel

(then Bird St.) from Norwalk to the river.

The Pan-American Exposition:  1901 - 2007

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I'm in SCHMAPP!

 
 

UPDATE December 1, 2007:  I am proud to announce one of my photos has been included in the latest Schmapp Travel Guide "Walking in Downtown Buffalo" for which I am honored.  Photography is a hobby and I'm learning as I go.  I continue to add to this series of classic waterways from Buffalo's past.  Now, I present the HAMBURG CANAL and it's associated waterways, the CLARK-SKINNER CANAL and OHIO SLIP and OHIO BASIN.  Also, the TERMINUS MAP has been expanded to include the waterways to the north:   Slip #1, Slip #2, Parker's Slip, Coit Slip, and the Evans Ship Canal.  The area includes all up to Genesee Street.  Just added:  BUFFALO CREEK (Little and Big) and its associated waterways which had a large hand in creating the "Fruit Belt", you can see from the paths these waterways took it created a fertile flood plain in the east side.

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BUFFALO CREEK

 

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© 2007 George Thomas Apfel

Last update 9 Dec 2007

 

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I'm a Buffalo native who has always been fascinated with what "used to be there," from my childhood growing up in North Buffalo I often wondered about what the city was like in the past.  I would walk along the Belt Line (then the New York Central) and was curious about the ghost tracks which led to an area which I would later discover was the grounds of the Pan American Exposition. 

 

 

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