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Caption:

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 [Niagara] Falls was built through the Porter grounds, and a 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
  • the various outbuildings


Source:"The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Severance, Frank H., ed. Buffalo Historical Society, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 260 (online)

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