Buffalo Grain Elevators

• unused space that could be used 
• Joseph Ellicott, plans for village of Amsterdam>village of Buffalo
• incorporated as a village
• western terminus of Erie Canal
• Buffalo incorporates as a city
• First free school system in New York State
• Joseph Dart invented the steam powered Grain Elevator
• Wells-Fargo railroad between Buffalo and Albany
• Population increased over 80,000 people
• Frederick Law Olmstead commissioned to design parks
• 1880: 155,134
• 1990: 255,5663 
• 1896: electricity is transmitted to Buffalo from Niagara Falls
• 1990: 352,387, 8th largest city in the U.S. 
• 1901, Pan American Exposition
• 1920, 606,575 11th largest
• 1940, 575,901 14th largest
• 1960, 20th largest 
• 2010, 261,310 73rd largest
• Grain Elevator invented in 1842
• mechanical unloading and handling of grain
• turned Buffalo into one of the largest cities in the United States
• made the City Beautiful movement possible
• local corporations, upper-classmen and industrialists were able to convince Olmstead "the Father of Landscape Architecture" to come to Buffalo
• Joseph Dart, lawyer, businessman, and entrepreneur
• Dart went into the hat and fur business
• Dart learned how to speak Iroquois
• Dart became a trusted businessman with the Native American
• Dart, financed the building 
• Robert Dunbar, born 1812 in Scotland, learned mechanical engineering, took control of a shipyard in 1830s
• Dunbar moved to Black Rock, New York, constructed flourmills
• Dunbar designed and built nearly every grain elevator in Buffalo
• Buffalo had free public schooling before New York City had free public schooling