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c-span when we travel to buffalo to explore the city's rich history. learn more all weekend here on american history tv. >> right now we are at buffalo waterfront. it is to revitalize the waterfront. our waterfront sits out there, in lake eerie, one of the great lakes. 84%great lakes comprised of

of north america's freshwater. the fact that we are right here in downtown buffalo on a great lake is something that is significant us. our vision being to revitalize the waterfront. we have thought how do we create it? where we are now is in a position to re-create with the waterfront look like at a point in time. we have a master plan that tries to re-create some of the feel of what it would have been like to live back then without taking it to the historic extreme. 1817anal was built back in in rome, new york to cross states and was completed in 1825. it is a marvel of its day, called clinton's ditch, it wasn't thought to be that productive. in the end it turned out to be

quite success -- a success story. bringing materials, transportation, foods people from one side of the state to another site was transformational and it's time. it was 40 foot wide and four foot deep. it served a purpose of getting goods and materials from one side of the state to the other. that was an incredible technical marvel at the time. once the canal was completed it transform buffalo from a small town into a major city and destination. this would the place of people wanted to be, where the western areas could embark on a journey to get from one side of the state to another or to the great lakes. it became a destination. when we did the reconstruction made this, we've waited out exactly the way the canal came into this zone. you can stand on these corners

and look at these angles and say this is where the boats, the mules would take the path and carry the boats. wealso have immigrant steps re-created, a great feature from and historic standpoint. it is also written tha it was so active at times that in a 10 iod, there were some many people that emigrated it was veryountry, significant. if the buffalo on the map and made things quite different. if you look at a map you will see building, building, building , put together like rowhouses. there was so much activity because of all the ships coming in.

if you think about this site you will say that is impossible but the bar standpoint, a lot of transients coming into town and they needed a place to sleep and eat, and a place to drink. that is what was happening in the early 1800s. -- majormake her producer of grain, we have a lot of grain elevators. they would come up and down the waterways, we have 16 grain elevators. some are still active, massive crow concrete structures. we have 16 remaining, they are the absolute marvelous structures. it is big on the great lakes. that, aransportation of lot of it was great in its heyday in we have a lot of passenger traffic and goods

sent from one side of the state to the other. once railroads came to play it offered a lot more opportunity for the same goods to be transported from one side to the other. put to bednal was somewhat when the real came to play. that offered an alternative route, that was a big thing that close the door on the area canal. a streett we then used pass and covered it and used it on streets and highways so we could get our traffic from one side of the city to the other. what we have done today is we have created a portion which is what we are proud of, they can use the historic lines of what was here on this side and tie it into the western terminus, done in an historic fashion.

our proud achievement is to have that re-creation of the area and citizens folks can come down to this site and have a taste of history and get a feel and talk to people about what it was all about and the significance of the area canal. -- eerie canal. we are not proud enough of our past. i think if we can remind the next generation of how great buffalo was, and how great buffalo can become, we can throw in pieces of history. history play such an important role because it is part of our character. we think about our grandparents, great-grandparents. they all came over on boats from other countries. this was a melting pot of different groups and populations. that is how buffalo became such a great neighborhood. it was heavily influenced with polish and italian.

so many different ethnic groups that came in. everybody grow up and know something about what their great-grandfather, great-grandmother did. it goes on for generations. we can tie in and say this was what the bridge looked like in 1825. it is more important to have it look real and have a sense of where we came from. -- thate the officials is how the street looked in 1825. have the re-create and stonework along the canals, and have as much of history and the history as we can, it gives you the emotional connection. i member standing down there in the winter time and it is not just a look, it is the emotional feel that is important.

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