Buffalo
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- Names
Buffalo
New Amsterdam
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Lake Erie where it narrows into Niagara River; here explorer La Salle built ship in 1679; was French trading post in 1758, but abandoned; then settled by Seneca Indians, taken by Holland Land Company 19th cen.; expanded greatly after Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Asa Cheffetz (American, 1896-1965)
- Active
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