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Buffalo is the second commercial city of the State and the largest and
most important upon the great lakes. Its situation at the foot of navigation
upon Lake Erie and at the western terminus of the Erie Canal makes it
the principal port for the transhipment of the products of the great grain
region of the Upper Mississippi Valley, and gives to it the command of
the greater part of the commerce of the lakes. The number of entries at
this port during the year 1857 was 4,017, with an aggregate of 1,618,672
tons; and the number of clearances was
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3,564, with an aggregate of 1,603,134 tons.
The exportation and importation by canal is also immense; and it is estimated
that the value of merchandise and property transported by R.R. is greater
than the entire amount of the lake commerce of this port. About one-fourth
of the shipping of the lake is owned by the citizens of Buffalo. Shipbuilding
is extensively carried on. The manufactures of the city are extensive
and various. The principal public buildings are the Custom House, Fort
Porter, the State Arsenal, and the city markets. The Custom House, on
the corner of Seneca and Washington Sts., is a handsome and well built
structure, containing, beside the custom house office, accomodations for
the post-office and the U.S. courts. It was constructed, at a cost of
$140,000, from designs furnished by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Fort Porter, built in 1842-48, is a fortification on the bank of Niagara
River at the point where it emerges from Lake Erie. The State Arsenal,
erected in 1858, is a massive stone building fronting on Batavia St. There
are four large markets, conveniently located in different parts of the
city.
Statistics & Facts
-- The population of Buffalo is approximately 3,302.
-- The approximate number of families is 1,627.
-- The amount of land area in Buffalo is 8.321 sq. kilometers.
-- The amount of surface water is 0 sq kilometers.
-- The distance from Buffalo to Washington DC is 1672 miles. The distance
to the Wyoming state capital is 243 miles. (as the crow flies)
-- Buffalo is positioned 44.34 degrees north of the equator and 106.71
degrees west of the prime meridian.
-- Buffalo elevation is 4,645 feet above sea level.
Buffalo location: between the Black Hills of South Dakota and Yellowstone
National Park; at the crossroads of Interstates 90 and 25
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