Historical Association of Lewiston press release
The Historical Association of Lewiston is pleased to welcome June Crawford for its next program: “The Grain Elevators; Saving Buffalo’s History!” This presentation will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah Fellowship Hall, 915 Oneida St., Lewiston.
In the early 1800s, Buffalo was a small village. Its emergence as a thriving city that became one of the wealthiest areas of the U.S. by 1900 is directly related to its position on Lake Erie, the building of the Erie Canal, and the development of the grain silos that could handle the distribution of the nation’s grain supply. The invention of the grain elevator made this port so efficient that it changed the face of American farming and grain sales…