The Industrial Heritage
Committee, Inc.
The Industrial
Heritage Committee, Inc. is a not for profit group dedicated to documenting and
preserving Buffalo and WNY’s commercial and industrial history. The long range goals
for the Committee, focus on development of Buffalo’s waterfront including an
Industrial Heritage Trail with designated markers of important industrial
heritage sites explaining the waterfront’s history and celebrating Buffalo as
the Birthplace of the Grain Elevator and the role these structures then played
in the history of the City, The Erie Canal and International Architecture. The Trail is designed to be free and
accessible to school groups, tourists and the rest of us. Make history come alive… Help us build the
Industrial Heritage Trail.
Become
a member of the Committee…
Mailing
address:
The Industrial
Heritage Committee, Inc.
Or
Historic
Buffalo River Tours Schedule 2008
Elevate Buffalo
Grain Elevator T Shirts
Holly Steam Engine/Col.
Ward Pump Station T Shirts
SEAWAY TRAIL
MARKER DEDICATION
Grain Elevator
Reuse (coming soon… including plans for ethanol facility)
The Joseph Dart Historic Marker
Dedicated by
The Industrial Heritage Committee, Inc. in 1990, marks the site of the world’s
first steam powered grain elevator, constructed on the Buffalo waterfront in
1842 specifically for the transfer and storage of grain.
DON’T MISS THE
BOAT…The Original and 23rd Annual
Historic
Buffalo River Tours 2008
Please call
856-6696 for Reservations
Every year the
Industrial Heritage Committee welcomes the public aboard its Annual “Historic Buffalo River Tours.” These copyrighted two
hour boat tours have been sold out since they began more than 20 years
ago. The tour offers a sailor’s view
showcasing the outdoor museum of existing and historic grain elevators along
with other active industrial sites along the Inner Harbor, Buffalo River and
City Ship Canal. Join us for our 23rd season…
The Industrial
Heritage Trail becomes reality… stay tuned…
The Industrial
Heritage Trail celebrates Buffalo as the Birthplace of the Grain Elevator. Using existing elevators, historic sites, and
viewsheds, the Trail explains changes in technology, construction styles, impacts
on architectural history, the history of the scoopers and the impact of all of
these factors on the city, the region and the world.
The Holly Steam Engines
These triple
expansion steam engines built by the Holly Company founded by Birdsall Holly,
are located in the Col. Ward Pumping Station on Porter Avenue. IHC has proposed that one of these engines be
restored for public demonstrations and the room housing these engines, formerly
an area open to the public for paying water bills be reopened for public
tours. The steam engines were featured
in the Summer ’99 issue of Invention and Technology.
The Scoopers
Project
February 2003, saw the end of a uniquely Buffalo,
occupation when the grain scoopers, Local 109, unloaded their last straight
decker freighter. IHC was lucky enough
to document the Last Scoop with photographs and video. We believe the Scoopers are a rich piece of
Buffalo’s unique waterfront and labor history, using rigging invented in
Buffalo and patented in 1864. We are
looking for more photographs and stories to complete the documentation… Please contact us with your ideas
Photographer – Jerry Malloy all rights
reserved IHC 2008
Links to other
Grain Elevator and Industrial Heritage sites:
Akron Grain Elevator Hotel Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
Buffalo History Works Grain Elevator
Site Lowell National Historic Park
Buffalo Irish Links Minneapolis Mill City Museum
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materials copyrighted, all rights reserved The Industrial Heritage Committee,
Inc. 2008
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