| Posted by FSWood on February 22, 2024 | |
Have wondered how Buffalo, New York, got its name since that region doesn't seem to be known for vast herds of buffalo roaming the Niagara prairie.
And then coming to mind is a railroad named Buffalo Creek & Gauley, memory says it was in a state other than New York and is not connected to this Buffalo Creek. Went and looked it up, West Virginia. And that raises a similar question, I don't recall ever hearing/seeing anything about vast herds of buffalo roaming the Appalachian prairie, so how did name buffalo come in to being employed there?
|
The short answer is that the city of Buffalo was named for a stream already named Buffalo Creek. This comes from a book on the Erie Canal that my daughter gave me last Christmas. I need to find it to get to the details of how Buffalo became Buffalo - but seriously, as I remember it, the name did come from the already named Buffalo Creek.
|
|