Ruth McEvoy Collection 19 - Genesee County

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Rush of calls via the dial system. 11-3-1958 Batavia begins changeover to a dial system. 2-7-1962 Installs Group Emergency Call System for rural firemen. 12-6-1964 The is the first in Western New York to have push-button phones. 4-25-1964 20% of the telephone cable is already underground. 11-22-1967 Telephone lines are going underground on Ellicott Street. 11-22-1968 Proposes expansion of tool-free zone. 8-19-1969 Phone workers in the area are on strike. 11-6, 7-1969 Batavia to start 911 emergency number next year. 11-18-1969 Telephone expansion. 11-29-1969 Wildcat telephone strike ends, pending a special vote. 5-14-1970 Phone men walk off their jobs in a State-wide strike. 1-15-1971 Phone company strikers stop trucks - on strike since July 14th. 9-24-1971 A car was overturned at the NY Telephone garage in a strike dispute. 11-16-1971 Telephone installers at work after the July strike. 2-18-1972 Takes over long distance from American Telephone & Telegraph. 12-29-1972 Margaret Langley to head NY Tel here. 10-16-1974 Telephone center to move from the city. 6-4-1980 Last operators are leaving the city. 11-18-1980 Business offices are moving to Amherst Saturday. Picture of the new park on Jackson Street built while phone service changed 7-7-1981 from electromagnetic to digital switches. 7-27-1991 News Dealers Herbert E. Smith. 1889 B. B. Smith. August 1890 Spellman & Peet. 3-18-1891 Niagara Frontier Services See: Tops Market; Hy-Top Pharmacy. Niagara Junction A stop on the Lehigh about a mile and a half east of the Batavia station. 2-21-1894 RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 27 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Niagara Power Company See also: Western New York Utilities Co. Niagara Mohawk Power Company Started here in 1907 with 14 customers - according to John Secord. Consumer Light and Power Co. folded in 1889 - also Secord. A power war starts - Niagara Falls Company and Genesee County Electric both apply for a contract to serve the area. 2-8-1906 Aldermen get another offer from Niagara. 5-18-1906 Running streetcars - to be used to run the Central signals. 8-2-1909 Niagara Hudson offices open at 117 Main Street - very handsome. 9-12-1908 Niagara service reported as good. 11-23-1908 Street cars to run on Niagara power. 4-3-1909 To get more machinery - improve service. 3-18-1910 Putting automatic lighting in shop windows. 10-1-1910 To furnish power to Wiard Plow. Homelius drawing the plans for the new power company building for Ellicott Street. 10-8-1910 Glade & Son to build the business office. 10-22-1910 The Light Company moves from 117 Main Street to its new office. 3-28-1911 Buys two Smith houses at 44 and 46 Ellicott Street - no plans yet. Buys almost three acres on Franklin Street - the area on Ellicott Street is too 5-29-1919 restricted for expansion. 12-27-1923 Laur and Mack of Niagara Falls to build a transformer station on Franklin Street. The new facility on Franklin Street is ready for installation of equipment.11-15-1924 4-22-1924 Three pieces of equipment arrive - 20 tons each. 1-15-1925
The Franklin Street plant is now connected with Akron, Oakfield and Attica. 2-16-1925 Two huge transformers moved from Ellicott Street to Franklin Street. Buffalo General Electric, Niagara Lockport and Ontario Power Co. and Tonawanda 4-4-1925 Power Co. ask for a permit from the PSC to merge. 5-11-1925 Picture of the Franklin Street plant - NY Utilities Co. 4-1-1926 Ready to build at 218 East Main Street. 2-15-1930 To build at 218 East Main. 6-20-1930 William Locke and Sons to build for. 7-10-1930 The new building will be ready soon. 12-6-1930 Picture of the new building - open Saturday. 3-12-1931 Building open. 3-14-1931 Niagara Hudson to discontinue the sale of appliances. Tearing down 46 Ellicott Street, moving (to the) house next door. 12-10-1932 See: Ellicott Street. 6-22-1933 Picture of the Niagara Hudson office building. 11-16-1937 To spend $200,00 to improve service in Batavia. 4-16-1941 Buffalo Niagara seeks a merger - to become Niagara Hudson. Niagara Hudson Power Co. newly organized from the joining of: New York Power and Light of Albany; Central NY Power Corp. of Syracuse; Buffalo Niagara 9-20-1946 Electric Corp. of Buffalo. 5-10-1948 Picture of the new bucket lift of. 11-5-1956 Planning expansion. 1-5-1957 Gets 400 calls due to the effect of Hurricane Audrey. 7-1-1957 Buys the Glade property on Railroad Avenue for expansion. 6-1-1962 Plans expansion - more voltage - to cost $1,216,000 - a part of a $79million plan. 12-30-1964 Spending $5million on expansion. 1-3-1966 To spend $2,290,000 to build a power station east of the city. 1-2-1968 First supports rise on East Main Road for a substation. 5-1-1968 Ni-Mo to spend $3,225,000 on improvements. 1-18-1969 Protest the installation of transformers in the Court Street area half above ground. Picture of the Ni-Mo control center on Franklin Street powering up for emergencies - 2-11-1969 governs the whole northwest end of the state. 1-3-1970 Replacing lamps on Center Street with vapor lamps. RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 1-8-1970 28 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Niagara Power Company To bring a new power line here. 1-9-1970 Niagara Mohawk Power Company To go ahead with underground wiring in the Court Street Plaza - the court will (cont) decide who pays for the work. 6-22-1970 Budgets funds to buy a site for a new building in Batavia - Reported September 13th. 1-16-1973 To build a million dollar facility - East Main between Twin Fair and the Fairgrounds. 10-28-1976 To start building in June. To move its offices to the new building as well as its maintenance offices - now 3-17-1977 at 218 East Main. 7-27-1977 The building is going up by McWethy, ready by July. 6-8-1978 Offices are moving to East Main Road this week. Employees who find elderly persons in crisis are to report them to the proper 7-20-1979 authorities. 11-18-1988 Ni-Mo and Oatka Milk to cooperate on using steam to produce power. 10-31-1990 Closing its Batavia facility - others in the state - to concentrate its work in Syracuse. The National Grid Group to acquire Ni-Mo Power Co. by forming a holding group, New National Grid, and exchange Ni-Mo shares for American Depository 5-9-1994 shares plus cash. 9-6-2000 Niagara Bank See: First Niagara Bank. Niagara Scenics Junior A Hockey Club. Checking Batavia as a new location. 12-4-1993
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