House built by Albert Augustus Porter – Buffalo Avenue. Now the site of the Holiday Inn.
Niagara Arts & Cultural Center Update – March 2015
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March 12th @ 6pm: Thomas Chambers
American Antiquities are so Rare: Commemorating 1812 on the Niagara Frontier
Perhaps no other part of the United States saw more battles during the War of 1812 than the Niagara River borderland in western New York State. In later years its decaying fortifications and overgrown battlefields provided reminders of the struggle’s bloodshed and indecisive conclusion.
Tourists traveling to Niagara Falls visited nearby Fort Niagara, Queenston Heights or Lundy’s Lane, constructing the war’s memory in the process. As one visitor wrote during an 1821 trip to Niagara, “This beautiful country stimulates my patriotism.” Battlefields and monuments on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border became sites where Americans, and especially New Yorkers, came to understand why the War of 1812 mattered, and how they could remember its fallen heroes.
March 19th @ 6pm: Eric Bloomquist
“Creating Borders and Defining Country”
Discover the forgotten history of borderlands in the Niagara Region. Learn about the impact of the Holland Land Company,Pioneer settlement, Native Treaties and the creationof an American National Identity.
March 26th @ 6pm: Alan Jamieson
Haudenosaunee Diplomacy and the Two Row Wampum Treaty
The Two Row Wampum Treaty is considered by the Haudenosaunee to be the basis of all of their subsequent treaties with European and North American governments. Find out more about this agreement also known as the Tawagonshi Agreement of 1613 between representatives of the Five Nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) and representatives of the Dutch government in 1613 in what is now upstate New York.
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Back in Time: Main Street and Cleveland Avenue (from the Orrin E. Dunlap Collection at the Niagara Falls Public Library)
[Text from the back of the photo on the left, typed and pasted to photo by Orrin E. Dunlap]
In 1855, when George H. Hackstaff moved from Niagara Falls to Niagara City, he established the Franklin Bookstore and Printing office on the northwest corner of Lewiston and Erie Avenues, now Main and Cleveland Avenue. There he printed the Niagara City Herald. In moving, Hackstaff moved his family, business and building from the Falls to Niagara City, and of the step he editorially said the following on Nov. 15, 1855:
“A Remove – Our friends at Niagara Falls who have and inkling to take up the same ‘line of march’ that we did, by the removal of their buildings and families to the great busy mart, we would recommend the conveyance of Mr. John Chubbick. We lived comfortably on board of our dwelling while the vehicle jogged us along just as easy as a thing of life, though not exactly at railroad speed, and a little outside of two-forty. If John had a little more go head in him, we opine he would have better success in business – still, John can’t prevent the roads being muddy, or the clouds sending down an unusual quantity of water. We hear John is busily engaged in removing the International Hotel to what point in the locality it is still to be situated, is all a mystery.”
The building shown in the picture is the Hackstaff building and site, known later in my boyhood as “Tommy” Hannan’s Corner. The Herald Office was moved to the Colt’s Block, 2nd Floor, early 1859.
One of the first owners of this corner was a Scotchman named James Russell, who died April 10, 1866.
In 1946, the brick building on this corner was remodeled. It was a costly job of months.
- Orrin E. Dunlap, from the Orrin E. Dunlap Collection at the Niagara Falls Public Library
Image of the Day – May 7, 2013 – Old Stone Chimney c.1890
The Old Stone Chimney, along the bank of the Niagara River at Frenchmen’s Landing, the original upper terminus of the Portage. A few fruit trees still remained from Stedman’s orchard to the south. Photo ca. 1890. Peter Porter would be the Chimney’s first and most passionate preservation advocate. Courtesy of Revere The Old Stone Chimney
Image of the Day – April 29, 2013
“Niagara Falls- Toronto Ferry Company” 1904 – Click link here for fineartamerica.com
Image of the Day – March 15, 2013
Pine Plaza (Krull Parkway Townhouses in background) – visit www.iwitnessniagara.org