The Gatling Land Boom of 1893
Buffalo, New York
In November 1892, a group of investors secretly bought up 1200 acres of farmland on the bank of Eighteenmile Creek in the town of Hamburg just south of Buffalo, New York. Teams of surveyors worked through the winter to map out the streets and boulevards of the new city of Gatling, New York. In April 1893, construction was started on the factory of the Gatling Ordnance Company which was to employ 1000 men. The following month saw the start of one of the biggest promotional campaigns in the history of Western New York.
Read more about the Gatling Land Boom from my article which appeared in the Winter 1999 issue of Western New York Heritage magazine.Gatling Deed Index
Erie County Independent
Buffalo Courier, January 5, 1893
Gatling Weekly News, June 1, 1893
Buffalo Express, June 4, 1893
Buffalo Courier, August 18, 1893