Waterfront is
also home to America’s largest inland Naval park, the
Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park.
The Erie Basin
Marina features an observation tower with breathtaking
views of Buffalo and Canada.
The historic
1833 Buffalo Lighthouse anchors the Outer Harbor and its
miles of bike trails and lakefront parks.
Some of the
very best bass, salmon and trout fishing in North
America.
Buffalo
had the nation's largest capacity for the storage of
grain in over thirty concrete grain elevators located
along the inner and outer harbors on the Buffalo River
and Lake Erie.
1842. Joseph Dart built the first wooden
grain elevator in Buffalo. Later, steel elevators paved
the way for the mammoth reinforced concrete elevators,
the first of which went up in
Buffalo
in
1906. The last one constructed here was erected in 1954.
