October Program at Immanuel Lutheran Church - Buffalo's Early Canal District

Name: October Program at Immanuel Lutheran Church - Buffalo's Early Canal District
Start: 2024-10-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 107 Scott St, Tonawanda, NY 14150-3428, United States

Schedule

Wed Oct 09 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

107 Scott St, Tonawanda, NY 14150-3428, United States | Tonawanda, NY

Edward Patton will discuss research that reveals how immigrants flowed through Buffalo to settle the heartlands and goods were sent back East.
Buffalo's waterfront has a rich history, but nothing matches the Canal District where the Erie Canal met the Great Lakes. At the foot of Main Street, the port built the city into one of the largest and most prosperous in the nation by 1900 and developed a worldwide notoriety as one of the roughest waterfronts anywhere.