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Commercial Slip, 1827

Courtesy Western New York Heritage Institute Collection

Basil Hall’s view of the western terminus of the Erie Canal in 1827. This image of Buffalo, reproduced on Staffordshire china in 1830, shows a canal boat in the Commercial Slip near the Buffalo River, and a large building fronting the canal basin features an upper floor cantilevered out toward the canal towpath.