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Welcome to Buffalo<br />

CHRONOLOGY<br />

Buffalo was settled in 1800 and incorporated as<br />

a city in 1832.<br />

NICKNAMES<br />

“City of Good Neighbors”<br />

“Queen City of the Lakes”<br />

“City of No Illusions”<br />

POPULATION<br />

Buffalo has a population of 292,648. The<br />

Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area<br />

(MSA) is the 43rd largest United States metro area<br />

with a population of 1,170,111.<br />

LOCATION<br />

Buffalo is the commercial, political and entertainment<br />

hub of an eight county region (Erie, Niagara,<br />

Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee, Orleans<br />

and Wyoming counties) with a population of<br />

nearly 1.6 million. Located at the easternmost end<br />

of Lake Erie, overlooking the Niagara River, Buffalo<br />

is just across the Peace Bridge from the Canadian<br />

province of Ontario, and a 20-minute drive from<br />

Niagara Falls. Approximately 55 percent of the U.S.<br />

population and 62 percent of Canada’s population<br />

is within a 500-mile radius of the Buffalo Niagara<br />

region.<br />

Fascinating Facts<br />

• All Cheerios are made here.<br />

• Chicken wings were first served at the Anchor Bar<br />

on Main Street in 1964.<br />

• Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark,<br />

is considered one of the five acoustically perfect<br />

buildings in the world.<br />

• In 1905, the NAACP was founded in the region,<br />

with its first national conference in Buffalo.<br />

• Two hundred miles of fresh water shore border the<br />

area.<br />

• Buffalo was the first city in the United States to<br />

light streets with electricity.<br />

• Buffalo is the only city in the United States to boast<br />

five Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes.<br />

• The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National<br />

Historic Site, formerly the Wilcox residence, was the<br />

scene of the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as<br />

President of the United States on September 14, 1901,<br />

following the assassination of William McKinley.<br />

• More bagels are made in Buffalo than any other<br />

U.S. city.<br />

• Forest Lawn Cemetery, located across the street<br />

from Canisius College, is the resting place of President<br />

Millard Fillmore, General Albert J. Meyer (founder<br />

of National Weather Service), Chief Red Jacket of the<br />

Seneca Indians and William G. Fargo, co-organizer of<br />

the first transcontinental Express Service.<br />

• Home of Samuel Clemens, who worked as the managing<br />

editor of them Buffalo Express Newspapers,<br />

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the<br />

United States, and Warren Spahn, the Hall of Fame<br />

pitcher, who is the winningest left-hander of all time<br />

with 363 victories.

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