Canalside's Inner Harbor Highlights Walking Route

Canalside’s Inner Harbor Highlights Walking Route ~1.6 mile | 3,200 steps 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Start Here 3. Stop 1 Stop 2 Overview: Stop 3 Stop 4 When the Erie Canal opened in 1825, 2. the 363-mile canal connected the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Stop 5 & Stop 11 Atlantic Ocean, dramatically reducing Stop 6 travel time between the two. With the western end of the Erie Canal here in Stop 10 Buffalo, the Canal brought to Buffalo 1. a boom in commerce, industry, an Connecting wealth that transformed the city. Terminal Stop 7 Grain Elevator

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Supported By Canalside’s Inner Harbor Highlights Walking Route ~1.6 mile | 3,200 steps

Starting Location — Replica Stop 1— Commercial Slip Stop 2— Whipple Truss Bridge Stop 3— Longshed Canals / Explore & More • The Commercial Slip was the • Engineer Squire Whipple designed a • Will house the construction of The • Site of Memorial Auditorium original Western Terminus of the bowstring iron truss arch for bridges Seneca Chief packet boat which (1940-2009). “The Aud” was home Erie Canal, connecting the canal to in 1841, and they became common Dewitt Clinton traveled on when the to the Sabres (1970-96) & the Erie Canal opened in 1825. the Buffalo River and thus to the for bridge construction. NBA’s Buffalo Braves (1970-78). Great Lakes. • Project is lead by the Buffalo Mari- • Replica Canals follow the path of • The Naval Park was established in time Center and will take place over the Erie Canal and connected slips. the 1970s and is now home to the the next 3 years. • The Commercial Slip was filled in USS Little Rock, USS The • The Seneca Chief replica will be 73 • Ralph C. Wilson Explore & More in the 1920s, and this portion was Sullivans, and USS Croaker; this Children’s Museum opened in 2019. feet and the public will be able to restored and reopened in 2008. new museum was built in 2008. take part in building it.

Stop 4— Canalside Boardwalk Stop 5— Connecting Terminal General Mills DL&W Terminal (1917) Stop 6— Stop 7—

• From this end of the Boardwalk, you • Across the river from the Board- • Washburn Crosby Co. arrived here = Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western can see the Buffalo River as it walk; built in 1915 (right section) in 1903, & became General Mills in Railroad. makes its way to Lake Erie – this is and 1954 (left section) 1928. Buffalo’s Inner Harbor (the Outer • Cargo trains came in on the 1st Harbor is across the Skyway, along • Grain elevators were created in • Produces flour and cereal: primarily floor, & passenger trains came in on Lake Erie) Buffalo in 1842 to increase grain Cheerios and Lucky Charms. the 2nd floor. transfer and storage capacity – • The harbor was created starting in switching from manual labor to me- • Wheat for the flour mill is still • Closed 1962, & the passenger termi- 1819, and once built, led to the Erie nal part of the building was demol- Canal’s arrival here in 1825. chanical process to unload shiploads delivered by lake freighter. of grain. ished (1979).

Stop 8— EM Cotter Fireboat from Stop 9— Watchman’s Tower Stop 10— “Go!” Mural/ Stop 11— French Connection the Michigan St. Bridge Cobblestone District Statue (2012) • A replica of an 1880s US Lifesaving • Built in 1900 and still operating: Service Watchman’s Tower that • By Augustina Droze and Bruce • Depicts 3 of the Sabres’ most mem- the oldest fireboat on the Great once stood at the entrance to the Adams, 2015. orable players: Rene Robert, Gilbert Buffalo Harbor (near the Lakes lighthouse). • Design inspired by Pop Art, Bau- Perreault, and Richard Martin: all haus School, and Piet Mondrian. French-Canadian players. • Used to fight fires and for • Replica completed in 2014; icebreaking; can pump 15,000 • Cobblestone District was for many Weathervane on top depicts Seneca years home to warehouses and small • Perreault was the first Sabres player gallons per minute. chief Farmer’s Brother. factories; some buildings have been to have his number retired, in 1990. redeveloped.

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