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

By John H. Conlin - January 15, 2002

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.

The full content is available in the Winter 2002 Issue.

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