If you’re into Buffalo/Erie County history, these are awesome. Potential for massive amounts of time wasting.
1894 City of Buffalo atlas, click on the various plates to see zoomed in areas with individual building details. You can rotate the main page to be north-south with the link at the top. My house is on here. http://www.erie.gov/atlases/buff_94/city_atlas.html
1920s Erie county aerial photos, same deal as above. You can navigate in photos by clicking the plate numbers on the sides of each image. http://www.erie.gov/aerials/1920s/20s_map.html
Here is the Mighty lot in 1920 (Sheridan, Eggert, and NFB). If you look close you can see a riced out model T doing a lame one wheel peel.
North is on the left. I don’t see much of anything there.
Thanks dude, you posted a perfect shot of my property. Center of the screen about 2 inches up. That whole area was developed in the late 40’s, early 50’s. I though it was fascinating to watch my land progress from a big acquisition by the Holland Land Co. in the early 1800’s, through farmland, and ultimately see the mortgage taken out to build my place to the tune of about $7,000 dollars.
LOL im an idiot. so there has a been a church in that spot for probably much longer than the past 87 years. looks like it was still pretty big back then.
Ohhhhh are you talking about on Eggert, maybe halfway to the bottom of the picture? I know there’s St Amelias near there and another one closer to Sheridan, maybe Baptist?
Yup, you can’t find it because it’s not there yet, look at this plate…http://www.erie.gov/aerials/1920s/atlases/book6/html/b6_h20.html
You can easily see Cazenovia Park, look just to the east (right), you see what looks like a horse track? A large dirt oval? Right next to that is a set of railroad tracks, that is where I90 runs today, the oval is right off Seneca street, go east over the tracks and the third street is where Harlem is today, then it was just a neighborhood street, but you can see it’s being extended.
