Lewiston, New York Location in Niagara County and the state of New York.
Location in Niagara County and the state of New York.
State New York Lewiston is a village in Niagara County, New York, United States.
The village is titled after Morgan Lewis, an early 19th-century governor of New York.
The Village of Lewiston, NY (also known as Yehewakwa tha in Tuscarora) is inside the Town of Lewiston.
Lewiston is situated on the Niagara River, just athwart the river from Canada.
The Niagara River intersects the Niagara Escarpment between Lewiston and Queenston, Ontario, identifying the Lewiston-Queenston section of the escarpment as the geologic origin of Niagara Falls.
Over a roughly 12,500 year span, the falls has eroded nearly 7 miles south from Lewiston to its present locale in Niagara Falls, NY, creating the 7 mile long Niagara Gorge.
Lewiston lies halfway between the world-famous Niagara Falls and historic Fort Niagara in Youngstown, New York.
Popular summer celebrations include the Outdoor Art Festival (the second weekend in August) and the Historic Lewiston Jazz Festival (the last weekend in August).
Lewiston has over 30 locally owned and directed restaurant/food establishments inside a mile, positioned primarily on Center Street, catering to a range of tastes.
Various cultures of Native American tribes inhabited the Lewiston region for thousands of years, with the earliest known artifacts dating to 5000 B.C.
Before the mid-17th century, they had coalesced into the Five Nations, the historic Iroquois tribes of the Haudenosaunee based in present-day New York.
Those who allied with the British went north with Joseph Brant before the end of the war and are part of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation in Ontario.
Those allied with the American colonists stayed in New York.
The Tuscarora Nation of New York is federally recognized and has occupied a reservation at Lewiston since the early 19th Century, although in the 1950s state and federal authorities took 22% of their reservation by eminent domain to construct what is now the Robert Moses Power Plant reservoir. The Village of Lewiston (formerly known as The Landing) was the site of the first European settlement in New York in 1720, where trading started along the river.
In addition to its ancient indigenous settlement, Lewiston became historically momentous during European evolution of North America, and strategic in United States and Canadian history.
A commemorative sign marks the locale where the American force embarked to cross the Niagara River.
While most American militia deserted, the small-town Tuscarora natives stood and fought a delaying action which bought enough time for the surviving people to escape. The Historical Association has constructed a large scale bronze monument of thanksgiving to the Tuscaroras entitled Tuscarora Heroes Monument that was unveiled on the 200th anniversary of the attack on December 19, 2013.
For many African Americans escaping standardized in the 1840s and 1850s, Lewiston was the final stop on the Underground Railroad before they crossed the Niagara River to secure freedom in Canada.
The Historical Association of Lewiston has prepared a "Freedom Crossing Study Guide".
Lewiston was a trading center on the Niagara River.
The village has a number of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These have contributed to the sense of place that anchors the village and formed the base of its chief street renovation.
In adjacency to the Village of Lewiston, a 710-acre (2.9 km2) hazardous chemical waste landfill is privately directed on territory inside the suburbs of Lewiston and Porter.
It is the only such landfill left in the Northeastern United States. Nearby is the former Army Ordnance Depot, which has a landfill including heavy metal contamination, as well as radioactive material from the Manhattan Project of World War II, conducted at Tonawanda, New York.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, CAN Niagara Falls, NY Grand Island, NY According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km ), of which, 1.1 square miles (2.8 km ) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km ) of it (9.32%) is water.
Lewiston is a Niagara River community, north of Niagara Falls, New York.
The formation of Niagara Falls began in Lewiston 12,000 years ago.
New York's historic Ridge Road begins in Lewiston.
New York State Route 18 - F and New York State Route 18 have termini here, both at New York State Route 104.
The Niagara Scenic Parkway runs North and South along the Eastern edge of the village.
John Ceretto, New York State Assemblyman Francine Del - Monte, former New York State Assemblywoman The following are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Lewiston Mound, Lower Landing Archeological District, and the Frontier House. The Chemical Waste Management Hazardous Waste Landfill, the only hazardous chemical waste landfill in the northeastern United States.
The Niagara Falls Storage Site which contains radioactive material from part of the Manhattan Project conducted at Tonawanda, New York.
Tuscarora Indians, 362 US 99 (1960)(upholding the taking, concluding that territory the Tuscarora purchased did not appreciate the same protection as territory US originally gave them; Justice Black's ringing dissent upbraided the majority for absurdly parsing the word "reservation" to exclude territory bought clean water given, ending with "a great country should keep its promises.") Lee Simonson, Tuscarora Heroes: The War of 1812 British Attack on Lewiston, New York (New York: Historical Association of Lewiston, 2010) ISBN 978-1-932583-23-6 p.49 et.
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