Historic Milestones
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1678Father Hennepin "Discovers" Niagara Falls
1800 Joseph Ellicott completes survey of the Holland Land Purchase
1813Burning of Buffalo
1819 Dredging Buffalo Harbor to make way for the Erie Canal
1825Erie Canal - Wedding of the Waters
1842Invention of the Grain Elevator
1847Birth of University of Buffalo
1850Millard Fillmore becomes President
1868Olmsted and Vaux develop parks plan
1885Grover Cleveland becomes President
1888Broadway Market opens
1895Roycroft opens
1898Roswell Park Cancer Research Center
1901Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt
1901 Pan American Exposition
1901McKinley Assasination
1902Invention of Air Conditioning
1905Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House
1905 Albright Knox Art Gallery
1905Niagara Convention
1910Maiden voyage of SS. Canadiana
1926Shea's Buffalo
1926 Our Lady of Victory
1926 Riviera Theatre
1927 Peace Bridge
1958 Allentown Art Festival
1977Blizzard of 77