Bridge scrapbook, 1851-1871.

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Bridge scrapbook, 1851-1871.

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Scrapbooks of handwritten notations and clippings from Buffalo and Niagara Falls newspapers about bridges, particularly the Niagara Suspension Bridge. Includes articles about attempts to change the name of Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.

(0.1 linear ft.).

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7348967

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge (Lewiston, N.Y.)

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Porter, Augustus Seymour, 1798-1872

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Augustus Porter was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, in January 1769, and moved to Canandaigua, New York, in 1800. He visited the Niagara Falls area in 1795 and soon returned with his brother, Peter B. Porter. The Porter brothers were two of the area's first settlers, and they later owned several boats that traveled on the Great Lakes, as well as a saw mill that they built in 1803. Augustus Porter served on the New York state legislature, and in 1807 founded the firm Porter, Barton & Co., bec...