Village of Tonawanda, article (Buffalo Emporium and General Advertiser, 1825-05-07).pdf
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Village of Tonawanda, article (Buffalo Emporium and General Advertiser, 1825-05-07).pdf
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Village of Ton-a-wan-da.
THE subscribers offer building lots in the village of Tonawanda, Erie County, New York, for sale on very reasonable terms, to actual settlers.
This place is located on the Niagara River, twelve miles north of Buffalo, at the junction of Ellicott’s and Tonawanda creeks with the Niagara river. From the bridge over the Tonawanda to the village of Green-Haven (12 miles east) the Tonawanda is converted into a canal, by the erection of a dam near its mouth, which raises its waters about five feet, making the summit level of the Erie canal. A guard lock to govern the floods of the Tonawanda and its tributaries, and also a step lock, to descend into the Niagara River, have been erected at this place. The descending ship navigation of the upper lakes is at all times safe to this harbor: the ascending navigation is secured by the ship lock at Black Rock, and the introduction of Steam Boats upon the Niagara River; two of which are to touch at this port every day during the season of lake navigation, after the first of July next. Mills of various descriptions are erecting: a Ferry to and from Grand Island has been chartered by the late legislature, a good bridge erected across the Tonawanda creek, near the site of the old ferry, the low lands back of the village plot perfectly drained, and every other measure taken calculated to induce enterprising and industrious mechanics to settle here.
We cannot better describe the commercial advantages of the place, than to quote the language of a late public document,—“It is our decided impression, that there will be some benefit derived from shortening the canal, even if it be done at the expense of lengthening the lake navigation. And the different powers ordinarily employed in carrying on canal and lock navigation, seem to us to justify this impression. After a vessel is prepared on the lake, with every thing complete for business, she is moved by the power of the wind which costs nothing; whereas the canal boat is moved by the power of a horse, which must be bought and fed, and is not exempt from disease and death. The consequence is, that freight, on a canal, is always charged by the mile; though it is not so, strictly, on waters navigated by the power of wind. We understand the same freight is charged from Troy to New-York, as from Albany there;—and we have no idea that a different freight will be charged from Black Rock or even from Tonawanda, after the harbors are completed, to any place up the lake, than that which will be charged from Buffalo to the same place.”
TOWNSEND & COIT.
ALBERT H. TRACY.
LATHAM A. BURROWS.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS.
*Tonawanda, May 2, 1825.* 36
THE subscribers offer building lots in the village of Tonawanda, Erie County, New York, for sale on very reasonable terms, to actual settlers.
This place is located on the Niagara River, twelve miles north of Buffalo, at the junction of Ellicott’s and Tonawanda creeks with the Niagara river. From the bridge over the Tonawanda to the village of Green-Haven (12 miles east) the Tonawanda is converted into a canal, by the erection of a dam near its mouth, which raises its waters about five feet, making the summit level of the Erie canal. A guard lock to govern the floods of the Tonawanda and its tributaries, and also a step lock, to descend into the Niagara River, have been erected at this place. The descending ship navigation of the upper lakes is at all times safe to this harbor: the ascending navigation is secured by the ship lock at Black Rock, and the introduction of Steam Boats upon the Niagara River; two of which are to touch at this port every day during the season of lake navigation, after the first of July next. Mills of various descriptions are erecting: a Ferry to and from Grand Island has been chartered by the late legislature, a good bridge erected across the Tonawanda creek, near the site of the old ferry, the low lands back of the village plot perfectly drained, and every other measure taken calculated to induce enterprising and industrious mechanics to settle here.
We cannot better describe the commercial advantages of the place, than to quote the language of a late public document,—“It is our decided impression, that there will be some benefit derived from shortening the canal, even if it be done at the expense of lengthening the lake navigation. And the different powers ordinarily employed in carrying on canal and lock navigation, seem to us to justify this impression. After a vessel is prepared on the lake, with every thing complete for business, she is moved by the power of the wind which costs nothing; whereas the canal boat is moved by the power of a horse, which must be bought and fed, and is not exempt from disease and death. The consequence is, that freight, on a canal, is always charged by the mile; though it is not so, strictly, on waters navigated by the power of wind. We understand the same freight is charged from Troy to New-York, as from Albany there;—and we have no idea that a different freight will be charged from Black Rock or even from Tonawanda, after the harbors are completed, to any place up the lake, than that which will be charged from Buffalo to the same place.”
TOWNSEND & COIT.
ALBERT H. TRACY.
LATHAM A. BURROWS.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS.
*Tonawanda, May 2, 1825.* 36
Date
1825-05-07
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Citation
“Village of Tonawanda, article (Buffalo Emporium and General Advertiser, 1825-05-07).pdf,” North Tonawanda History, accessed September 2, 2026, https://nthistory.com/items/show/4995.