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Buffalo

New Amsterdam

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located on Lake Erie where it narrows into Niagara River; here explorer La Salle built ship in 1679; was French trading post in 1758, but abandoned; then settled by Seneca Indians, taken by Holland Land Company 19th cen.; expanded greatly after Civil War.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

Asa Cheffetz (American, 1896-1965)

Thomas R. Manley (American, 1853-1938)

Gail Tremblay (American, 1945-2023)

Active

Doug Levere (American, born 1966)

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