Depew, NY
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Lehigh Valley Depew – Blasdell Line
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company has prepared plans to build a railroad from Depew to Blasdell. The road will run parallel to the Terminal railroad and will strike the outer edge of the Steel Company’s land. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 21 July 1900, p. 12, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Depew Buildings Lots!
This October 1895 advertisement announced a special train leaving Buffalo on the Lehigh Valley Railroad to take potential buyers of land in the new suburb of Depew. It exhorted the 3000 men now working at the shops in Depew to buy plots of land now before the capitalists and land speculators. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening…