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Title: Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, George Milroy, 1862- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Acme publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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wa, Washington, and Ellicott streets for$25, and the block corner of Main and Swan streets, running through to Eric Street, for $125. All land northof Chippewa was sold for farms at $11 and $12 an acre. Black Rock was unequal to the race, and gave it up. A post-office was established at Buffalo in 1802. Ezra Metcalf carried the mail on horse-back. He could,and perhaps did, carry the letters in his waistcoat pocket. Ever since that day the post-ofBce business ofBuffalo, sure index of a citys growth, has been increasing at a marvellous rate. In 1879 there were 10,593,904pieces of mail matter of all kinds handled at this office, which grew to 41,052,t3l7 last year (1889), or anincrease of 287^ per cent in the past decade! John Palmers log tavern was, in 1802, the scene of another interesting event. A Seneca Indian came tothe tavern one evening and tried to murder Palmer. William Ward and Joseph Keeler were sitting in the tavern ILLUSTRATED *BvffalojC ., THE<CtUEEN ^ CITY OF THE LAKES.
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Palmer escaped, but the In- door, and saw the assault. dian turned and stabbed Ward to death. In capturingthe Indian, John Hewitt was also killed by the savagesknife. The fury of the people in the little village wasso great that the Indian had to be taken to Fort Niagara ILLUSTRATED *^WFFAL0jC.c.^?i;.^l.!5l

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