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A very early engraving of Gen. Porter's house at Black Rock.
This crude woodcut, 7 by 13 inches in the original, was engraved by H. Merrill, of buffalo, probably about 1835, when the first railroad to the Falls was built through the Porter grounds, and fence was erected.

Crude as it is, this interesting picture well shows the old mansion, the ice-house in the bank, the steps that formerly led to the river, and the various outbuildings.

Source: "The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Severance, Frank H., ed. Buffalo Historical Society, Vol. 16, 1912

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