Recent archaeological excavations by the Allegheny Valley Project in Cattaraugus County have shed some light on pre-contact Natives, but have also raised more questions about their lifestyle.
The full content is available in the Winter 2016 Issue.
For centuries, people of all backgrounds and walks of life have recorded their impressions of Niagara Falls. Jack Wysocki provides a survey of these viewpoints, as well as the accompanying development — good and bad — of one of Western New York's most significant geographic features.
Three centuries ago, French traders established this small, but important site in what is now Lewiston.
Research and renovation efforts are reviving this early 19th century home and farmstead to create a cultural heritage site for visitors to enjoy.
Art preservationist Laura Schell recounts the painstaking restoration of a long-forgotten billboard, covered for a century and now brought back to life.
By: John Percy
Geography's impact on the history of Western New York and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula.
The first volume in Western New York Heritage's three part series.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Cattaraugus County was part of a regional oil boom that dotted the landscape with a forest of wooden derricks and tanks.
A century ago, thousands of newly immigrated Poles risked everything for a chance to free their homeland from oppression—in spite of the prejudices they experienced in "the Land of the Free."