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Excerpt from A History of Buffalo, Vol. 1: Delineating the Evolution of the City The charm of the cities of the old world to the artist and scholar is the body of historical and romantic associations which cluster about their history and monuments. A certain amount of age is usually required to throw over such memories the halo of romance. In this respect America has been until recent times more or less deficient. It is beginning to be recognized, however, that there is much in the history of American communities as heroic, as picturesque and as romantic as in the history of the cities of the older world and that already in many cases these memories are being sanctified by the halo of time. In this field many of the best American scholars have been diligently pursuing their researches among old archives, documents and monuments. Mr. Lamed, who has written the history of Buffalo in the series of volumes on "The Progress of the Empire State," has been able to cast more or less of this flavor of romance into the background of his account of the modern efficiency of organization which has advanced Buffalo, Rochester and other cities of the Empire State to leading places in the industrial and social development of America. His work combines the story of the evolution of Buffalo from a little hamlet, on the frontier of a century ago, down to the magnificent city of to-day, with its great factories, railroad terminals, many-sided institutions of culture, and beautiful homes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.