The Town of Tonawanda

by John W. Percy

Book Overview

This remarkable photographic history of Federal Hill features images of the community from the late 1800s to the mid-1960s, chronicling the arrival of immigrants from many countries over the years.

During the thirty-four year period from 1898 to 1932, more than fifty thousand Italian immigrants arrived at the port of Providence. The majority of them settled on Federal Hill, the three-hundred-acre land mass that stands high above...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738587176
• ISBN13: 9780738587172
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"