--- [email protected] wrote: > I am still interesting in finding a copy of a page in 1871-72 > City Directory > for the name MONCRIEF (various spellings) BECPL can make these copies for a fee: http://www.buffalolib.org/ebranch/askus/index.asp > Any information about the area called "Uniontown" in the 1850s > would be very > much appreciated. I think that was the neighborhood surrounding the Union Iron Works in South Buffalo. Don't have any sources handy, sorry! > Also, I noticed on the 1870 Federal Census that most the those > living on > Moniter Street were iron workers or in furnace work in the > ROLLING HILL IRON > WORKS. Any information on this mill also would be > appreciated..(My > great-grandfather worked there 1865-1875 then left and went to > the Union Mills in Athens, PA. > He was a blacksmith)..........vldg Here's a guide to researching defunct businesses in Buffalo: http://www.buffaloresearch.com/made.html Hope this helps! *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)