North Tonawanda: The Lumber City is a love story finally told, the story of so many thousands upon thousands of individuals, organizations, and businesses that were woven together into the entity North Tonawandans so fondly refer to as just NT but which is proud to be the City of North Tonawanda. The book is expected to be the first in a series of full-length books, as requested by area residents and former residents in their contacts with the three year old museum organization. North Tonawanda: The Lumber City has been described by some area historians who have had advance opportunities to read it as a monumental first effort, and a significant contribution to the city of North Tonawanda, its residents and former residents, and area educational institutions. It is a general overall account of the citys development and shares many stories of the people who were part of the life of the city. Our hope is that this book will provide its readers with a sense of pride in the city and its past and a renewed hope for its future. We hope the readers will fall in love all over again with the essence of North Tonawanda. Our focus in this volume is to excite the readers curiosity about our local history and stimulate the imagination while presenting a general overview of some of the more readily verifiable events and stories of some of the people who lived and worked in North Tonawanda, both those who were well-known and are remembered and those who are relatively unknown and perhaps even forgotten. Future volumes will offer additional details of the citys history and more stories of the lives of the NTers who lived and created our history with their lives. We seek to tell the wonderful story of the people of North Tonawanda, not to create a factual encyclopedic volume. We do not pretend to replace an almanac or encyclopedia or additional personal research. Our written work is meant to be a general and, we hope, interesting account of how North Ton
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