http://www.tonawanda-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:45:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_316133803.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_316133803.html The interior of the home at 257 Goundry St. has changed slightly, but still has characteristics of a Queen Ann Style home. Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:23:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_309122508.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_309122508.html This is part two of a two-part story. While still in the banking business, BL was associated with his brother James in the Rand Ledger Company. He enjoyed the manufacturing business so well that he was soon working full time with the Rand Company. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:25:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_302142613.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_302142613.html This is part one of a three-part story. The fine house at 257 Goundry was the home of Benjamin Long Rand, known as “BL” in the family, who was the oldest son of Calvin Gordon Rand and Almira Long Rand, born June 22, 1855, in Batavia. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:15:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_295131658.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_295131658.html The North Tonawanda History Museum’s founders’ goal in 2003 was to create a tourist attraction that would serve to bring economic benefits to the city and its residents based on its unique and wonderful history. Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:47:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_281115747.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_281115747.html This is part one of a two-part series about the home at 209 Niagara St. Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:08:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_274141026.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_274141026.html Built in the late 1800s, this was for a time the fine home of George C. Dailey, one of the first presidents of State National Bank, which is not at all surprising when you consider who his neighbors next door at 257 Goundry were: the Benjamin Long Rand family. B.L. Rand and his brothers, George Franklin Rand and James Henry Rand, were all bankers during their active careers and were part of State National Bank. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:03:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_267135633.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_267135633.html Louisa Parkway was laid out around 1924 through a tract of land owned by James Sweeney Thompson, in order to facilitate development. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:22:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_260182355.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_260182355.html The North Tonawanda History Museum has been promised the first shipment of its first full-length book on the history of North Tonawanda by the publisher by the end of September. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:53:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_253150124.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_253150124.html This is the second part of a two-part series about 262 Christiana Street built by lumberman Will Kelsey. Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:47:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_239124811.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_239124811.html An interesting frame Colonial Revival style house was built circa 1904, and sits on a foundation of Medina sandstone. The three-bay, side-gable design features a projecting center bay topped by a prominent front-facing gable. Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:03:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_225130553.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_225130553.html International Paper Co. was established on Tonawanda Island in 1924. The firm produced fine grades of paper, including books, writing papers, tablets, coating and offset printing papers. Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:06:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_211130735.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_211130735.html The North Tonawanda History Museum’s 2nd biannual Historic Treasures Tour will be form noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. It includes 11 historic homes and two additional historic structures. Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_204130202.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_204130202.html The East Boston Timber Co. was our earliest lumber businesses, operating from White’s Island, now known as Tonawanda Island, beginning in 1833 after they purchased the timber rights to the white oak on Grand Island. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:16:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_197131943.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_197131943.html Ray H. Bennett was the owner of Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co. and Bennett Redi-Bilt Homes during what was a part of a thriving industrial period for North Tonawanda. Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:18:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_183142013.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/rememberyesteryear/local_story_183142013.html Born in Hornby, N.Y. in 1845, Augustus J. Hathaway enlisted in Company A 50th New York Volunteer Infantry in 1864 and served with it until the end of the Civil War, serving at City Point and in the Petersburg, Va. operations. He moved to North Tonawanda in 1876.