Posted on 11/24/2024 11:00:19 AM PST by DallasBiff
President William McKinley believed in luck. He specifically believed in the luck brought by red carnations, which is why he wore one to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901. When a little girl asked him for the flower, the president gave it to her. Then, Leon Czolgosz shot McKinley in the abdomen
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This is the house in Buffalo I was trying to recall.
The Martin House is now a museum.
That is spectacular. Not my style at ALL, but impressive for sure.
Fortunately, it is now a museum and has been preserved. They even bought the house of the caretaker recently. Which is on the adjacent block to the left. It was owned by a private family until recently.
Buffalo actually has a lot of guided age architecture that is quite beautiful. It was a great city in the late 1800s early 1900s. Keep in mind the Erie Canal started there. Then all the lake boats/ships had to unload there until the Canadians built the Welland Canal and the locks on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. that was the start of the downturn. Then in the 1970s the steel mills started closing.
“Keep in mind the Erie Canal started there.”
Yep. I definitely know the history. I even remember the song:
Oooohh, I had a mule and her name was Sal
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal...
I was raised about 15 miles from Buffalo and loved the history of NYS in 7th grade.
Also,
“Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first large-scale hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls in 1895:
Nikola Tesla and the Development of Hydroelectric Power at ...
The plant was the world’s first to use alternating current (AC) on a large scale. Tesla’s work on AC electricity and the Niagara Falls plant helped usher in the electronic age and the electrification of the United States and the world.”
Buffalo was on the cutting edge of technology in 1896/turn of the twentieth century.
Thanks for adding to that.
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