Welcome To North Tonawanda Part 2 Traditional Cache
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Welcome To North Tonawanda Part 2
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North Tonawanda, was incorporated as a village May 8, 1865. This is
another of the places which owes its birth to the Erie Canal, but
it came into being much later. As the virtual western terminal of
the canal, with its sister city, Tonawanda, they became the
greatest lumber place in the world, later second only to
Chicago.
Claim is made that the "Twin Cities" are the largest manufacturers
of bolts and nuts, pianos and automatic pianos. The first settler
of North Tonawanda was Georges Burges, 1809, who erected a frame
house on the site of the future city. Joshua Pettit established a
log tavern the next year. But any real development did not begin
until James Sweeney, issued an advertisement, describing the
advantages of the location, and the dam that would be thrown across
the Tonawanda, so as to raise the river to the level of Lake Eire.
They predicted a great future and an industrial and lumber center.
Park under the bridges on historic Sweeney Street along the canal
and find the stairs to the cache!
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