When there’s not much to say about a small piece of history, how tempting is it to fill in...
Lafayette could not believe where the boat stopped. It seemed as if he were magically suspended in the air....
June 6, 1825, was a memorable day for everyone in Lockport, the growing epicenter of engineering marvel. The nation’s...
Do you remember what you thought the first time you saw Niagara Falls? Now imagine how a European traveler...
Peter Porter didn’t like to lose, but lose he did. Buffalo, not his beloved Black Rock, won the right...
It’s 1825. The worst is behind it. Buffalo sits poised on the cusp to a nearly century long trajectory...
Left behind compared to its neighboring towns and villages, Dunkirk remained the last bastion of the frontier legacy of...
Fredonia is home to a lot of firsts. But they didn’t come until after Lafayette’s visit. What did this...
Traveling on the main road between Buffalo and Erie, Lafayette followed the same route as the U.S. Mail. The...
The spirit of the Greater Western New York Region undulated like a volatile rollercoaster in the decades immediately following...