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William G. Fargo, The Tycoon from Buffalo, Part II

The Fargo saga continues with the epic history of the express business in Buffalo and across a booming America.

Aviation History on the Niagara Frontier

From the turn-of-the-century Aero Club through Curtiss-Wright warplanes and Bell helicopters to news of a new museum in Niagara Falls.

The Life and Times of William G. Fargo

The grand mansion built by the tycoon from Buffalo, one of the city's wealthiest leading men, a founder of Wells Fargo and American Express, and the family who once lived there.

Old Photo Album: Elmwood Avenue

Elmwood Avenue in the Good Old Days.

E.G. Spaulding, Buffalo's Banker

The career of Elbridge Gerry Spaulding, father of the greenback dollar, and the history of the Exchange he built. In 1845 Spaulding's Exchange was the commercial center of Buffalo. What happened to it?

All My Life I Have Loved Trains

A man who continued to do what fascinated him in childhood, and eventually created a business with it. describes how he came under the spell of the model railroad.

The Commercial Slip, Part II - Wheeler's Hotel: A Microcosm of Buffalo's Famous Canal District

A drama created not from the imagination but from concrete excavation, paintings and drawings of the time, legal documents and site observation. What it was like to stand on the Buffalo waterfront before the railroads, when the only highway was on the water.

Cantilevered Architecture on the Commercial Slip

The first widely-known image of Buffalo's waterfront was an intriguing building.

Western New York Heritage

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