Ann Marie Linnabery

Three properties associated with Isaac Dole (1788-1851) are highlighted on Jesse Haines’ 1851 map of the village of Lockport.

This week Niagara Discoveries will focus on the Dole property on East Avenue in Lockport since that was the house in the photograph that started this journey. The Dole and

Printed in the Aug. 26, 1963 edition of the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: “FAMILIAR LANDMARK TO GO — This two-story stone building, located at 52 East Ave., which was erected n 1840, is in the process of being razed to make way for a giant parking lot to serve new stores in the eastern fringe of Lockport’s downtown redevelopment district. The view here is from the west side of the building. It has been a familiar landmark to generations of Lockportians.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an expanded and updated installment of Niagara Discoveries that originally was published in 2014.

There are still many people in Lockport today who attended, or at least remember, the Business School at St. Joseph’s Academy that existed in the 1940s and 1950s. But there

Occasionally specific topics are suggested for Niagara Discoveries. A recent request came through the Niagara History Center’s Facebook page for more information about the various industries that once lined the

Last week, this column highlighted some of the first mills that developed along Eighteen Mile Creek in the village of Lockport in the early and mid-19th century. By the last

Over the past few weeks, this column has highlighted some of the first mills that developed along Eighteen Mile Creek, first in the village, and later in the city of

On May 10, 1808, the following notice appeared in the Western Repository newspaper in Canandaigua:

People always seem surprised to learn that a Niagara County native, Belva Lockwood, was the first woman to try a case in the United States Supreme Court in 1878 AND