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NORTH TONAWANDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NORTH See also:TONAWANDA , a See also:city of See also:Niagara See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the N. See also:side and at the mouth of Tonawanda See also:Creek (opposite Tonawanda), and on the Niagara See also:river, about 14 M. N. of See also:Buffalo. Pop. (1910 See also:census) 11,955. It is served by the See also:Erie, the See also:Wabash, the Lehigh Valley, the See also:West See also:Shore, and the New York Central & See also:Hudson River See also:railways, by three interurban electric lines and by the Erie See also:Canal. Electric See also:power for its factories is furnished by Niagara Falls. In 1905 the value of its factory product was $6,499,312. The See also:water-See also:supply comes from the Niagara river. North Tonawanda was first settled as a See also:part of Tonawanda in 1809; it became a part of Wheatfield township in 1857; was incorporated as a See also:village in 1865, and chartered as a city in 1897. In 1825 See also:Major Mordecai See also:Manuel See also:Noah (1785-1851), a New York journalist and politician of Portuguese Jewish descent, attempted unsuccessfully to found on See also:Grand See also:Island (See also:area 27 sq. m.; pop. (1910) 914), Erie county, W. of North Tonawanda, the city of See also:Ararat, a temporary See also:refuge for See also:Jews, who should return thence to the See also:Holy See also:Land. See L.

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Allen in Publications of the Buffalo See also:Historical Society, vol. i. (1879), pp.

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