Before a single cabin stood in Western New York, European kings divided it with ink and ambition. Spain. Portugal. France. The Dutch. The British. Each claimed what they had barely seen—and rarely controlled. How did these paper empires shape the destiny of the Greater Western New York Region? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “A European Tug Of War,” and discover how lines drawn across oceans set the stage for centuries of conflict.
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