Old World Buffalo, Pan-Am Expo 1901, Iroquois, New York, McKinley, Erie Canal, Oldest Photographs

Welcome back. Let’s try this again. My first video was hit with a copyright claim for the background music within 10 minutes, so I edited some of that out, and reuploaded the video. I appreciate you sticking with me!

Today we will take another strong sip of “Old World” tea. My focus in this video will be Buffalo, New York.

Buffalo has been occupied since 7000 BCE, and was home to many Iroquois-Speaking Native American tribes before European settlers arrived.

Throughout history, different European settlers have all claimed to have “founded” or owned Buffalo, including the French, British, and Dutch. Buffalo was also home to one of the largest congregations of Susquehannock Native Americans, who have a very unique history (which we will discuss, briefly).

With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Buffalo rapidly grew. Buffalo was one of the largest cities in the USA around 1900, and still expanding. For this reason (according to the current narrative) Buffalo was chosen to host the Pan-American Exposition of 1901.

The 1901 Expo showcased some of the greatest architecture, in my opinion, of any of the World’s Fairs. The saddest, if not most unexplainable, portion of the narrative is how all these buildings were constructed merely to last the length of the fair, and intended to be torn down shortly afterwards.

Today will be a compilation of roughly 200 unique and rare photographs of Old World Buffalo, including before and after the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Thank you for being here! We are at 6K Subscribers and still growing! Please let me know your thoughts and comments about these Old World structures, and the narrative behind them, down below.

Let’s break this narrative apart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Ame...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...

https://panam1901.org/