Present day site of Pilgrim Housing and City Honors School . Cholera raged in 1832 and the Council provided a burial spot, to be ready in case this pestilence should demand increased room for the dead. For this purpose William Hodge sold to the city five acres of farm lot No. 30, between North and Best Streets and west of Prospect Street, for a Potters Field. A portion of it was set apart for Roman Catholics. Illustratiion and caption from Buffalo Historical Society.
Armory is located.
Here were buried Capt. William G. Williams and his wife, America Pinkey Williams, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. The Millard Fillmore House Buffalo Lighthouse. Weekly steamboat service between Buffalo and Chicago is inaugurated. 80,000 people leave Buffalo headed for the West.