Harboring History: The Heritage Behind Buffalo's 200-Year-Old Overnight Success

by Michael N Vogel, Mark D Donnelly (Designed by)

Overview

How did Kelly's Island or Donnelly's Wall get their names? Were there pirates in Buffalo Harbor? Was there a clothing-optional beach on the city's waterfront? What lighthouse changed the shape of the United States?

All this and more can be found in the pages of this book, a collection of history and heritage that traces the colorful past of a waterfront that built a city in the 19th Century and is rebuilding its future in the 21st. Join journalist, historian and author Mike Vogel for a look back at some of the intriguing and sometimes obscure episodes that marked life on the Buffalo waterfront, and the forces that once made this harbor a critically important economic powerhouse for the nation.

Harboring History offers residents and visitors alike a sense of place and a deeper appreciation of the once-industrial shorelines now finding a new role as a modern recreational urban waterfront.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997799613
Publisher:	Rock / Paper / Safety Scissors
Publication date:	08/17/2016
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d)

Table of Contents

FOREWORD 6
OF WATER AND TIME 9
ORIGINS 12
THE WAR OF 1812 14
THE ERIE CANAL AND THE
"INFECTED DISTRICT" 16
DUG'S DIVE 18
MULES AND HORSES 20
LINE BOATS AND PACKETS 21
BLACKSTRAP AND ROTGUT 21
FAITH AND GOOD WORKS 25
LITTLE ITALY, DANTE PLACE AND "THE HOOKS" 25
INNER HARBOR/OUTER HARBOR 27
THE PORT OF BUFFALO 27
GREAT STORMS 28
BREAKWATER, BREAKWALL, SEAWALL 31
DONNELLY'S WALL 33
SUNKEN TREASURE 34
ERIE BASIN/TEMPLETON TERMINAL 35
KELLY'S ISLAND AND THE BLACKWELL 35
THE OLD FIRST WARD 36
THE BEACH 37
SANDY-TOWN 38
SKINNY-DIPPING 39
LOUIS LeCOULTEULX AND HIS CHICKEN YARD 40
ON THE WATER: SHIPS AND BOATS 41
SHIPWRECKS 46
LIGHTING THE NIGHT 52
FIRE AND ICE 53
THE FENIAN INVASION AND THE PATRIOT WAR 54
TRANSIENT LITERARY LIGHTS 55
SMELLS 58
THE IMMIGRANT STEPS 59
STEAMBOAT HOTELS 59
RUNNERS 60
PRAIRIE SCHOONERS 61
POLICING 61
THE LIBERTY POLE 62
THE DOCKS 64
FINGY CONNERS 65
WELLS FARGO AND AMERICAN EXPRESS 66
CORNERING THE MARKETS 67
SPAULDING'S EXCHANGE AND THE
GREENBACK DOLLAR 68
THE PIRATES OF THE LAKES 69
GHOST SHIPS AND WATERWAYS 71
REEFS AND ARCHIPELAGOS 72
THE PEACE BRIDGE AND FORT PORTER 74
BLACK ROCK 76
RUMRUNNERS 77
HORSE CARS AND STRAP RAILROADS 79
THE RAILROADS COME OF AGE 80
ROWING AND YACHTING 84
BIKES, TRIKES AND MOTORCARS 88
JOSEPH DART'S ELEVATOR 89
CONCRETE ATLANTIS 90
SCOOPERS 93
THE LIFESAVERS 94
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 96
THE SLAVERY RIOT NEAR INDEPENDENCE DAY 97
AN EARLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD 99
CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS 100
EARLY WATER TAXIS 101
DRIVING THE HARBOR 101
BETHLEHEM STEEL 103
HARBOR LIGHTS 104
LIGHT VESSEL 82 108
THE LIGHT THAT CHANGED AMERICA 109
THE WATER INTAKE 111
BOATBUILDING 112
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 114
SEAPLANES AND HYDROSKIMMERS 114
THE CRYSTAL BEACH BOATS 116
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 118­