Tonawanda (city), New York
Tonawanda, New York The North Tonawanda side of the Gateway Harbor The North Tonawanda side of the Gateway Harbor Official seal of Tonawanda, New York Location of Tonawanda in Erie County and New York Location of Tonawanda in Erie County and New York Tonawanda, New York is positioned in the US Tonawanda, New York - Tonawanda, New York Location of Tonawanda in Erie County and New York Tonawanda (formally City of Tonawanda, from Tahnawa teh meaning "confluent stream" in Tuscarora) is a town/city in Erie County, New York, United States.
It is positioned at the northern edge of Erie County, south athwart the Erie Canal (Tonawanda Creek) from North Tonawanda, and north of Buffalo, New York.
2.2 Neighborhoods and locations in the City of Tonawanda 2.3 Major highways in the City of Tonawanda He added to the hamlet in 1811 with a tavern, both on the south side of Tonawanda Creek where it empties into the Niagara River.
The village united in a corporation with North Tonawanda athwart the canal.
This corporation fell apart, and in 1904 the village was incorporated as the City of Tonawanda.
On September 26, 1898, a tornado hit the City of Tonawanda.
From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century a section of Tonawanda existed that was known as Goose Island.
Goose Island was a manmade island in the Niagara River formed by the Erie Canal.
Goose Island was a triangular piece of territory bordered on one side by the Niagara River, on the second side by the Tonawanda Creek, and on the third by the Erie Canal.
It was then famous with seamen the world over as the end of the Erie Canal and for the Goose Island girls. The Goose Island Section of Tonawanda had various inexpensive boarding homes, inexpensive hotels, bars, and homes of ill repute.
Goose Island was known as a bad section of Tonawanda, with drunkenness, brawling, and bawdy displays being commonplace.
The gentrification of Goose Island began with the diminish of the lumbering port company in Tonawanda and the building of a boxboard foundry there on the island.
Next the section of the canal from Tonawanda to Buffalo was abandoned in 1918.
The establishments in the Goose Island section of Tonawanda came under improve pressure in the 1920s and 1930s and were closed, with more of the territory there being given over to the boxboard mill.
Goose Island street names Tonawanda, First, Clay and Chestnut disappeared.
Operating in Tonawanda from 1911 to 1992, it became the primary employer in the city.
With continued success, the three Spaulding brothers added a vulcanized fibre operation in Tonawanda, New York in 1911.
The mayor of Tonawanda, Charles Zuckmaier, had solicited the Spaulding brothers' company in Tonawanda. An official ground-breaking ceremony was held on July 17, 1911, for the new plant, a $600,000 investment by J.
In the 1930s, they added a second product at the Tonawanda plant: Spauldite, a "me too" phenol formaldehyde resin material made to compete with Bakelite.
In 1956 the Tonawanda plant instead of an expansion that doubled the paper foundry and the vulcanized fibre-making capacity of the plant.
In the 1960s, the Tonawanda plant added a third product line, Filawound (fiberglass) tubing.
The 50th anniversary of the Wheeler Street Plant in 1961 was marked by a special 22-page section in the Tonawanda News.
The business paid $153,818 in town/city taxes that year and was Tonawanda's biggest tax payer.
The Tonawanda plant began a slow diminish during a reconstructionof industrialized revamping and product and manufacturing changes.
Spaulding Composites closed the Tonawanda plant on August 24, 1992.
Since the closure of the Tonawanda plant, Spaulding Composites twice filed for bankruptcy.
The following are historic sites in Tonawanda of such significance as to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places: 2 Tonawanda (25th Separate Company) Armory Tonawanda Armory Nov 2008.JPG 79 Delaware Ave.
Niagara County, City of North Tonawanda - north Gastown A neighborhood in the northeast corner of Tonawanda, bordering the Erie Canal.
"The Hill" (aka "Riverview") A region centered around Tonawanda High School, so titled because of its slightly elevated topography when compared with the rest of the mostly flat city.
The City of Tonawanda is called by many of its inhabitants the "C.O.T.", meaning the "City" clean water "Town" of Tonawanda.
NY-265.svg New York State Route 265 (Main St., Seymour St., River Rd.) North-South Roadway from the Tonawanda town line (south) north through the town/city and over the Erie Canal/Tonawanda Creek into North Tonawanda.
NY-266.svg New York State Route 266 (Niagara St.), East-West Roadway from in the town/city that alongsides the Niagara River from the Tonawanda town line (west) through the town/city to its east end at Seymour St./River Rd.
NY-384.svg New York State Route 384 (Delaware St.), North-South Road from the Tonawanda town line at the south, north through the town/city and to North Tonawanda by the way of Main St.
NY-425.svg New York State Route 425 (Twin Cities Memorial Highway.) North-South Highway through the east part of town from its south end at Interstate 290 north to North Tonawanda once it crosses over the Canal.
In conjunction with the City of North Tonawanda, the City of Tonawanda jubilates an annual Canal Festival.
For one week, members of both communities jubilate Tonawanda's historic locale on the end of the Erie Canal in the biggest festival of its kind.
The Festival began in 1983 when Freemasons in the area, in conjunction with a several state and county-wide leaders, set out to promote the businesses of the Tonawandas, furnish fund raising opportunities for small-town non-profit organizations, and furnish recreational activities for the people of both Tonawanda and North Tonawanda.
Today, the Canal fest is organized by the Canal Fest of the Tonawandas Inc., a non-profit organization.
The Canal Fest is the biggest event held along the Erie Canal today and is in the top percentile of New York State affairs.
Also in conjunction with the town/city of North Tonawanda, Tonawanda is home to Gateway Harbor, a enhance park that runs along the Erie Canal just before it joins the Niagara River.
Various small-town businesses sponsor a series of concerts on both the Tonawanda and North Tonawanda sides of the park.
The Historical Society of the Tonawandas operates a exhibition in the former New York Central & Hudson Valley Railroad station, which has exhibits depicting the area's lumber trade and Erie Canal history.
Tonawanda was also home of the Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen, a experienced football team active between 1916 and 1921, best known for its brief one-game stint in the National Football League.
In the HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers, Easy Company soldier Warren Muck states that he is from Tonawanda and that he swam athwart the Niagara River.
"Skip" Muck died in the Battle of Bastogne and is on the City of Tonawanda memorial to soldiers killed in World War II.
Phillip Louis (Phil) Perew, Lake boat captain, inventor, sporting promoter, landlord of notorious establishments on Goose Island in Tonawanda Dave Hill, Tonawanda News, "SPAULDING FIBRE: From prosperity to decline", January 16, 2008 12:26 am City of Tonawanda Municipalities and communities of Erie County, New York, United States
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