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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2S_the-marine-a-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1990. The Marine 'A' Elevator, constructed in 1925, is actually the third Marine elevator built by the Abell fanily of Buffalo. The original wooden Marine elevator, built …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2O_the-perot-malting-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994. The perot Company, a business dating back to the late 1600s in Philadelphia, relocated its operations to Buffalo in 1907. The company commissioned the construction o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2A_the-lake-and-rail-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1990. The Lake and Rail Elevator was developed by International Milling Inc., which established a new milling operation in Buffalo in 1926. Within four years of the constr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M29_the-h-o-oats-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994. Development at the H-O Oats site began in 1893, with the construction of a wood-framed cereal mill and a fed mill built for Edward Wllsworth. Ellsworth was a pioneer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M1P_the-spencer-kellogg-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historican American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994. This 1,000,000 bushel elevator was completed in 1911 to supply Spencer Kellogg's linseed oil mill, the world's largest at the time. Unlike most of the elevator on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M1O_the-wheeler-glf-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994. The Wheeler Elevator, designed by H.R. Wait, was built in 1909 by the Monarch Engineering Company. The elevator had several unique features. It was the first elevato…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M0B_the-standard-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: The American Engineering Historical Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1985. The Standard Elevator stands next to the Buffalo River, immediately upstream of the Ohio Street Bridge. It was built in two phases of development. It was desig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LYD_the-saskatchewan-pool-elevator_Buffalo-NY.html
Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer,1990. The Saskatchewan Pool Elevator, was built in 1925 by the Monarch Engineering Company for the Canadian Farmers Cooperative. Its designer was C.D. Howe, a noted civil e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LV3_the-first-grain-elevator-early-grain-elevators_Buffalo-NY.html
In the years following the opening of the Erie Canal, Buffalo's harbor was becoming increasingly clogged with ships awaiting their turns to unload their cargos. A full team of dock workers could unload at most 2,000 bushels a day, and even then, o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LV2_the-early-grain-trade-influence-of-the-erie-canal_Buffalo-NY.html
Wheat was one of the first agricultural products planted by European colonists in the New World. In colonial times, it was not only a staple of life, but also became an item of national and foreign trade. The western movement of population acceler…
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