Town of Tonawanda - Kenmore History

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Historical Society Museum
Oldest building in the Town! (built in 1849)

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[Photo courtesy of John W. Percy, Town of Tonawanda Historian]

The Historical Society Museum, pictured above, was erected in 1849 as a German Evangelical Church, serving a rural congregation until 1967. The building and 1847 cemetery were acquired by the Town of Tonawanda, N.Y., in 1970, and opened as a museum in our nation's Bicentennial Year.

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This page was last updated on 11/11/07.
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The Village of Kenmore and the Town of Tonawanda are located to the immediate north of the City of Buffalo, New York.

"It was once tagged the 'Keystone of the Niagara Frontier.' Certainly it remains one of the leading towns in western New York. The Town of Tonawanda can boast of spawning the Niagara Frontier's pioneer suburban village, becoming the first to develop an extensive and varied industrial base, and being the first town to exceed a population of 100,000 people..."

The above quote is from the "Images of America" series, The Town of Tonawanda, by John Percy, Arcadia Publishing, 1997.