Lucien Howe, internationally respected pioneer ophthalmologist, dedicated his professional life to the prevention and curing of blindness.

Jamestown was a prosperous and growing down c. 1900. But the city experienced a catastrophe, however, called the Great Fire of 1910.

Industry in the Buffalo region operated according to the cycle of the seasons from the beginning of commercial traffic on the Great Lakes in the early 1800's.

The months of December 1944 and January 1945 saw an epic amount of snowfall in a succession of snowstorms.