Articles on Niagara County's Rich History

• Niagara Falls and Lockport Attracted Presidential Visits - 3/2/09
• Many Early Presidents Visited Niagara County - 2/23/09
• Chauncey Olcott - 2/23/09
• The Hodge Opera Fire - 2/9/09
• Jacob F. Schoellkopf - 2/9/09
• Nursing Facility Started in Elegant Home in Lockport - 2/2/09
• First Lady Driver - 2/2/09
• The Family Fitz-Gerald - 1/26/09
• The start of Lockport Protestantism - 1/26/09
• Lockport Mothers’ Club was first - 1/20/09
• Wright’s Corners Had the Right Stuff for Settlement - 1/20/09
• Hezekiah Scovell’s First Postage Stamps - 1/12/09
• Babcock House - 1/12/09
• Radical Abolitionist - 1/5/09
• The Doctors Crosby - 1/5/09
• I. Richard Reed - 12/22/08
• The Ransom Family - 12/22/08
• Nikola Tesla, Electrical Genius - 12/15/08
• Sanborn’s History Has Railroad Ties - 12/15/08
• Niagara Navigation Company Steamships - 12/8/08
• Joel McCollum - 12/8/08
• DeVeaux School - 12/1/08
• Taking a Peek at Pekin - 12/1/08
• Lockport Journal hosts first “fam-tour.” - 11/24/08
• John Jakob Raskob - 11/24/08
• Belva Lockwood Was Object of Local Man’s Affection - 11/17/08
• The Tallest Woman in the World - 11/17/08
• The Road from Lockport to Hollywood - 11/10/08
• Early German Lutherans Left Their Mark on Niagara County - 11/10/08
• The First Voting Machine - 11/3/08
• Pioneer Association - 11/3/08
• The Gold Rush - 10/28/08
• 1890 Fire Destroyed Masonic Block in Wilson - 10/28/08
• Political Grant Clubs - 10/21/08
• Homeopathic Medicine Had a Following in Lockport - 10/21/08
• Mr. Charles Barone, Leader of the Band - 10/14/08
• War! War! - 10/14/08
• Clarence Lewis, Historian Emeritus - 10/6/08
• J.N.B. Hewitt - 10/6/08
• Matt Murphy – A Gentle Giant - 9/29/08
• The Jackson Five - 9/29/08
• From Rags to Riches - 9/22/08
• Margaret Gill - 9/22/08
• Captain Cusick - 9/15/08
• World War I Hero Dies from Fall from Porch - 9/15/08
• Allie Brandt - 9/8/08
• Up and Down in the Falls in 1836 - 9/8/08
• Niagara Industry - 9/2/08
• Fort Little Niagara - 9/2/08
• Williams Brothers Department Stores - 8/18/08
• The Saint Who Preached in Pendleton - 8/18/08
• Niagara by Train - 8/11/08
• Asher Evans - 8/11/08
• Roger Woodward - 8/4/08
• Niagara Textile - 8/4/08
• T. V. Welch - 7/29/08
• Niagara Shipping Canal - 7/29/08
• Town of Niagara 1976 Bicentennial Project Continues to Highlight History - 7/22/08
• Morgan Boats - 7/22/08
• Frances Graham - 7/15/08
• Norman & Evans Merry-Go-Rounds - 7/15/08
• The Niagara Poultry Farm of Ransomville - 7/8/08
• Margaret Goff Clark – “A Friend of Niagara” - 7/8/08
• Bill Miller - 7/1/08
• Niagara Apples - 7/1/08
• James Graham - 6/23/08
• FDR Advisor Learned Agriculture in Wilson - 6/23/08
• Old Fort Niagara - 6/16/08
• Chestnut Street or is it road? - 6/16/08
• Sal Maglie - 6/9/08
• Cobblestones - 6/9/08
• The First Cocktail - 6/2/08
• Local Granges Advocated Interests of Farmers - 6/2/08
• The Honeymoon Capital - 5/26/08
• Billy Sherman, The Confederate Horse From Wilson - 5/26/08
• Judge William Gold - 5/19/08
• Melody Fair - 5/19/08
• Temple Beth David - 5/12/08
• The NFTA - 5/12/08
• The Lockport Felt Mill - 5/5/08
• Blondin - 5/5/08
• The Dream and Demise of Model City - 4/28/08
• 21st Century Daredevil - 4/28/08
• “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”:
  The Year Without A Summer - 4/21/08
• Ferree Company Wallets - 4/21/08
• The Upson Company - 4/14/08
• Follow The Bouncing Ball… - 4/14/08
• Warren Corners - 4/7/08
• Sullivan Caverno – Champion of free public schools - 4/7/08
• Captain Webb: From the English Channel to the Niagara River - 4/1/08
• The Pound Legacy - 4/1/08
• Niagara County Peaches - 3/24/08
• Hickory College: The Little School With the Big Name - 3/24/08
• Picking Niagara County Apples - 3/17/08
• The Holland Land Company - 3/17/08
• Wilson Native Was POW at Andersonville - 3/10/08
• Riot at Burt - 3/10/08
• How the First Cable was Drawn Across the Gorge - 3/3/08
• Howell’s Tavern Celebrating Bicentennial This Year - 3/3/08
• The House Everyone Wants to Know About - 2/25/08
• The Post Rider - 2/25/08
• The McLeod Excitement - 2/18/08
• The Van Horns of Newfane - 2/18/08
• Hodge Opera House Burned 80 Years Ago This Month - 2/11/08
• 17th Regiment of Cavalry-Company G - 2/11/08
• Niagara’s Aluminum Connection - 2/4/08
• Outwater Family Left Legacy in Niagara County - 2/4/08
• Niagara County native reaches the stars - 1/28/08
• Lincoln's Vest - 1/28/08
• Pawnee Bill - 1/21/08
• The Niagara Falls Museum - 1/21/08
• Geographic Oddities - 1/14/08
• Jimmy Duffy - 1/14/08
• The Old Stone Chimney - 1/7/08
• Indian Schooling - 1/7/08
• From Middleport to Juneau on Horseback - 1/2/08
• Bath Island - 1/2/08
• Lockport vs. Niagara Falls - 12/24/07
• Life Masks - 12/24/07
• Mud Ball Canons - 12/17/07
• Bone-Wars - 12/17/07
• The Riviera - 12/10/07
• Theft of Railroad - 12/10/07
• The Planned Community of Echota, Niagara Falls, NY - 12/3/07
• Billy The Kid vs. Niagara County - 12/3/07
• From Muffins to Mayor - 11/26/07
• President Lincoln - 11/26/07
• Newspaper Doughboys - 11/19/07
• Bell Aerospace - 11/19/07
• Disappearing Islands - 11/12/07
• The County Fair - 11/12/07  
• Iroquois Confederacy - 11/5/07
• First Telephone - 11/5/07
• The Curse of Idleness - 10/31/07
• All They Needed Was Love - 10/31/07
• Biddle Stairs to the Falls - 10/22/07
• The Trowbridge Connection - 10/22/07
• The Roar of Niagara - 10/15/07
• Five and Dime Inflation - 10/15/07
• What to do with the rowdies? - 10/8/07
• The Wreck of the Lucinda Van Valkenburg - 10/8/07
• Master Birdman - 10/1/07
• Gazetteer - 10/1/07
• Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness - 9/24/07
• Maid of the Mist - 9/17/07
• Paul Bunyan - 9/17/07
• Do Not Remove - 9/10/07
• Waterless Niagara - 9/10/07
• The Sutherland Sisters - 9/4/07
• Grave Robbery - 9/4/07
• The Lumber City - 8/27/07
• Dance Hall Oddities - 8/27/07
• Niagara Falls Reservation State Park - 8/20/07
• The Human Fly - 8/20/07
• The Telegraph Connection - 8/13/07
• The Great Gorge Route - 8/13/07
• Olcott Beach Trolley and Hotel - 8/6/07
• A Counterfeiter’s Plan - 8/6/07
• Holy Cows - 7/30/07
• The Brotherhoods - 7/30/07
• A Fish Story - 7/23/07
• Mrs. Trollope - 7/23/07
• Fire, Fire, Fire! - 7/16/07
• Boys Will Be Boys - 7/16/07
• The Strap Railroad - 7/9/07
• Newspaper Rivalry - 7/9/07
• Horseless Carriages - 7/2/07
• Niagara Joins All of America to Celebrate Its 120th Birthday - 7/2/07
• A Winter Walk Across the Niagara River - 6/25/07
• Grand Balloon Ascension - 6/25/07

• Ending on a High Note
  2/12/09
• FREE CONCERT by The Band of the US Air Force Reserve Jazz Ensemble
  8/12/08
• Bicentennial Quilt Tour
  7/17/08
• Antique Fire Muster
  7/02/08
• Niagara County Bicentennial Townball Tournament
  6/27/08
• Niagara County Bicentennial Commemorative Newspaper
  6/2/08
• Now Available - Bicentennial Wine at Marjim Manor
  5/11/08
• Leadership Niagara Presents First Bicentennial Banner to Niagara Falls High School
  4/1/08

1. Where was the Hodge Opera House located?
   Answer Photos

2. What year did the schooner the Lucinda Van Valkenburg meet her watery demise?
   Answer History

3. When is the Niagara Wine Trail's Bicentennial Event?
   Answer Events

4. North Tonawanda, known as the “Lumber City,” held the record in the country for lumber production at the end of what century?
   Answer History

5. The Seven Sutherland Sisters were world-famous for their incredible what, which reportedly had a collective length of 37 feet.
   Answer History

6. What year did the the Great Gorge Route?
   Answer History

7. What will be the size of the finish quilt being sewn by the Kenan Quilters Guild?
   Answer Photos

8. Who won the Bicentennial logo contest?
   Answer Photos

9. Scott Hagan, an artist from Ohio, is an expert in this area and has been contracted to do this work in each of the county's 12 townships. What is he doing?
   Answer Barn Painting

Douglas Farley, Director
Erie Canal Discover Center
24 Church St.
Lockport NY 14094
716.439.0431
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