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House and barn of John and Hannah Johnson according to trial testimony, AI illustration.htm
Testimony describes the Johnson place as a modest working homestead on twelve acres in the northwest corner of Great Lot 10. The land was originally…
Raymond Rowland, cabinet card photo (H. F. Wittkowsky, c1900).jpg
Later husband of J. F. Locke's second wife.
Historical jottings, War of 1812, River Cemetery, Bunker Hill, article (Tonawanda Herald c. 1880).pdf
AI Summary: Summary: Writing under the initial “L.,” a correspondent recounts the destruction along the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812, then…
Ironton Juniors football club, team photo (1914).jpg
Photograph of news clipping from the Kermit Cooper Family Collection, passed onto and held by daughter Shelley Cooper Patterson. Original source:…
Sweeney Cemetery Association Minutes (1868-1921).pdf
YEAR-BY-YEAR SUMMARY (AI): 1868 Citizens of both Tonawandas organized the Col. John Sweeney Rural Cemetery Association on February 12 and…
“Please Reply Soon”: Letters from West Prussia to the Schultz Family, 1902–1907.htm
While Herman Schultz Sr. and his brothers built lives in the Tonawandas, their widowed sister Auguste Ziesmer remained in Klein Albrechtau, West…
Ironton, article (Evening Courier & Republic, 1873-09-04).jpg
IRONTON. The Niagara River Iron Works—An Important Manufacturing Enterprise—A New Blast Furnace, a New Railroad Station; and a New…
Ironton Germans: Schultz (Schulz) Family History, partially transcribed booklet and family photos (1999).pdf
This 17-page Schultz family history was shared with North Tonawanda History by Maria De Borba-Silva, who received it from her third cousin Shelley…
Eugene de Kleist pledges organ factory as security, bond to Koehler & Wind (1897-03-08).jpg
AI SUMMARY:
On March 8, 1897, Eugene de Kleist pledged his organ factory and its lot at Sawyer’s Creek as security for a separate agreement, dated…
Eugene de Kleist property foreclosure, notice of pendency (Niagara County Supreme Court, 1898-10-17).jpg
AI SUMMARY
This notice of pendency, or lis pendens, records William Ziemendorf’s action to foreclose a mortgage granted by Eugene and Charlotte de…
Eugene de Kleist factory agreement, discharge of contract (Koehler & Wind, 1897-08-27).jpg
AI SUMMARY:
### Discharge of factory agreement — August 27, 1897
Koehler & Wind certify that de Kleist’s agreement of March 8, 1897—the security…
Village of Tonawanda, article (Buffalo Emporium and General Advertiser, 1825-05-07).pdf
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…
Pine Woods School, photo (c.1960).jpg
From https://www.ntschools.org/community/way-back-wednesday/1960s
Ironton Vocational School, photo (c.1960).jpg
From https://www.ntschools.org/community/way-back-wednesday/1960s
Gratwick School, photo (c.1960).jpg
From https://www.ntschools.org/community/way-back-wednesday/1960s
Interview about "Black Hannah" Johnson with descendants of Zaggel family, transcript (2019-10-12).htm
In October 2019, descendants of the Zaggel family, Marie A. Sommer and Roberta, met with me at Sweeney Cemetery to share their family’s long-held oral…
White to Vandervoort, mortgage, 1836-10-01 (vol12 p481).jpg
On October 1, 1836, Stephen White mortgaged his interest in Lot 80—about 185 acres along the east side of the Niagara River, excluding the railroad…
Mounds, Bone-Heaps, etc., excerpt (E.G. Squier, Aboriginal Monuments of the State of New York, 1849).jpg
CHAPTER IV.
MOUNDS, BONE-HEAPS, ETC.
Various references to mounds or tumuli, resembling those found in the Valley of the Mississippi, have been…
Tonawanda Island area Neutral sites, Aboriginal Occupation of New York, p109 (Bulletin of the New York State Museum, 1900).jpg
William M. Beauchamp’s Aboriginal Occupation of New York was published by the New York State Museum in 1900 as a preliminary statewide inventory of…
Lumber Vessels in the Gratwick Channel, photos (1920).gal
(AI) Exhibit E — Loaded Steam Lumber Barge in the Gratwick Channel A loaded, self-propelled steam lumber barge occupies the narrow channel between…
White, Gratwick & Mitchell, Inc. v. Empire Engineering Company, Inc. (1923) .pdf
What the court case was about This is a 1920s dispute between White, Gratwick & Mitchell, operator of two major North Tonawanda lumber docks, and…
Approximate locations of White mansion and ancient burial mound on Tonawanda Island.jpg
Using 1837 map.
In the haunted house, article (Tonawanda News, 1902-07-18).jpg
IN THE “HAUNTED HOUSE.”
**Party of Buffalonians and Tonawandians Hear Ghostly Shrieks and Rumbling.**
A party of five, including two…
Quiet at Tonawanda, article (Buffalo Express, 1893-06-19).pdf
QUIET AT TONAWANDA
Buffalo Soldiery Relieve the Two Separate Companies.
PEACEFUL DAY IN CAMP.
It Has Been Christened Camp Haunted, Because of…
Picnics once popular on Tonawanda Island, Clarence O. Lewis (Lockport Union-Sun and Journal, 1965-03-24).jpg
LOCKPORT, N. Y., UNION-SUN & JOURNAL, Wednesday, March 24, 1965
Picnics Once Popular On Tonawanda Island
By CLARENCE O. LEWIS
Niagara County…
