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Buffalo’s main lighthouse — and attached diaphone foghorn — was known as “The Breakwater Light” at the time of this 1930 photo. Eighty-five years ago, Buffalo was still a great port city.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The iconic Buffalo Lighthouse just reopened for tours after undergoing some repairs to the area around it. Lighthouse tours have started again after COVID and storm damage forced ...
Author: A. Beacon Kelly Carroll has no trouble remembering the inspiration that guided her life. It stands out like a beacon. In fact, it was a beacon – the 1833 Buffalo Lighthouse, to be exact ...
Buffalo, at the far eastern end of Lake Erie, has been home to numerous lighthouses over the years. Among the loveliest: the Buffalo Main Light, built in 1833, at the mouth of the Buffalo River ...
River Fest Park. Canalside. Buffalo’s Main Lighthouse. Erie Basin Marina. The last mile or so of the Buffalo River’s 6.2-mile journey snakes past some of the city’s most promising real ...
With restoration work completed on the “Chinaman’s Lighthouse,” the historic Buffalo waterfront landmark may soon be open to the public. With restoration work completed on the “Chinaman ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Lighthouse beamed it’s light for the first time in 1833, just eight years after the opening of the Erie Canal. It served as a beacon of light for ships that ...
BUFFALO, NY - This weekend the Buffalo lighthouse is being relighted. The lighthouse was built in 1833 and has become a landmark to the city. The Buffalo Lighthouse Association helped install a ...
To say the 2023 edition of the Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic’s annual Winter Gala was a success would be an understatement.
Since 2015, the Queen City Bike Ferry has been transporting people (and their bikes) from the Commercial Slip at Canalside to the Bike Ferry Landing at the Outer Harbor. What ...
Plans are in the works to improve public access to Buffalo’s historic lighthouse on the city’s Lake Erie waterfront.