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TONAWANDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TONAWANDA  , a

city of
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Erie county, New York, U.S.A., about II m. by
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rail N. of
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Buffalo on the Niagara
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River at the mouth of Tonawanda Creek (opposite North Tonawanda), and on the Erie Canal . Pop . (1900), 7421, of whom 1834 were
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foreign-born; (1910 census), 8290 . Tonawanda is served by the New York Central & Hudson River and the Erie
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railways, and is connected with Buffalo, Niagara Falls and
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Lockport by electric lines . The
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industries depend chiefly on electric power generated by the Niagara Falls, 11 m. distant . There are
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rolling-mills, planing-mills,
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ship-yards, and blast-furnaces, and among the manufactures are wooden
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ware,
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flour and paper . The surrounding region was the scene of hostilities during the Seven Years' War, and the War of 1812 . The first permanent white settlement was made about 1809, and Tonawanda was incorporated as a
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village in 1854 and was chartered as a city in 1903 .

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