Niagara River Greenway
The westernmost leg of the Erie Canal completed in 1825 followed a route paralleling the Niagara River between Tonawanda and Buffalo. From where you are standing, the Canal travelled some ten miles through the mostly unsettled Township of Tonawanda past Black Rock and finally to Buffalo. The adjacent ap shows the location of this section of the Canal which was ultimately abandoned in 1918. view of the Erie Canal looking north towards the Tonawandas from the Huntley Power Plant circa 1916. The huge success of the Canal whoch ran 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo helped make Buffalo one of the largest cities in the United States by the end on the 19th Century. I've got a mule and her name is Sal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal... Filled with lumber coal and hay, And every inch of the way we know From Albany to Buffalo. Go West Young Man For travelers on the Erie Canal, Tonawanda or even Buffalo was not their final destination. The Erie Canal is credited as being a major factor in the opening of the West in the mid 19th Century. An unimaginable flood of immigramts, land-seekers, and commercial interests poured into the Ohio Valley, across the Great Plains, and ultimately to the Pacific. The Buffalo Republican reports that, in one week, 3000 persons have passed westward| HM Number | HM1UX8 |
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| Series | This marker is part of the Erie Canal series |
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| Placed By | Historical Society of the Tonawandas |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, October 9th, 2016 at 5:02pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 17T E 670630 N 4764165 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 43.01101667, -78.90625000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 43° 0.661', W 78° 54.375' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 43° 0' 39.66" N, 78° 54' 22.5" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 716 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near Riverwalk, Tonawanda NY 14150, US |
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