 From the opening of the canal, in 1825, there was a rush of western emigration through Buffalo ; each year it grew greater than before ; the canal was crowded ; hotels all full ; warehouses groaned under their burdens ; vessels and steamers could not...  Thomas' Buffalo City Directory for ... - Page 161864Full view - About this book
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1879 - 474 pages
...speculation here was not so strange, — there was foundation to stand upon. From the opening of the canal, in 1825, there was a rush of western emigration through...was a pile of goods and furniture all along on Joy and Webster's wharf, more than twenty feet high, and upon the top of it sat as many as a dozen Senecas,... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1880 - 480 pages
...speculation here was not so strange, — there was foundation to stand upon. From the opening of the canal, in 1825, there was a rush of western emigration through...was a pile of goods and furniture all along on Joy and Webster's wharf, more than twenty feet high, and upon the top of it sat as many as a dozen Senecas,... | |
 | George Washington Hosmer - 1882 - 392 pages
...one morning I was at the dock, with many other strangers, gazing upon the mighty heaving west. ern tide. There was a pile of goods and furniture all...high, and upon the top of it sat as many as a dozen Senecas, men and women, they, too, with the rest of us, gazing with astonishment at this sudden flood... | |
 | Henry Wayland Hill - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1923 - 586 pages
...demands of business. I was here in the autumn of 1835, and one morning I was at the dock, with man}' other strangers, gazing upon the mighty heaving western...There was a pile of goods and furniture all along Joy and Webster's wharf, more than thirty feet high, and upon the top of it sat as many as a dozen... | |
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