Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, New York

City of North Tonawanda
North Tonawanda is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 33,262 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is named after the creek that once flowed past it. Tonawanda in the Seneca tongue means "Swift Running Water". Tonawanda creek, which flows into the Niagara River, once had large stretches of rapids (see Rapids, New York) until it was tamed with the construction of the Erie Canal. The city also calls itself "The Lumber City," due to its past primary industry and once was the largest port on the Great Lakes during the height of the Erie Canal.
The City of North Tonawanda was incorporated in 1897 after a split with the city of Tonawanda purportedly over gravel fill rights. It is on the north side of the Erie Canal, adjacent to the Erie County, New York communities of the City of Tonawanda, the Town of Tonawanda, and Town of Amherst. North Tonawanda is the birthplace of the Herschell-Spillman Company, one of the leading manufacturers of carousels in America and is the home of the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum. It is also the place that Rudolph Wurlitzer first developed and manufactured the Wurlitzer Organ and later the Wurlitzer Jukebox. The Wurlitzer building that is on Niagara Falls Blvd. is no longer manufacturing organs but is now home to many smaller businesses. The NT area also welcomed a new skate park, by the name of "TCP" built and established by the teens and adults who go there. Numerous videos and photographs of kids doing tricks and hanging out here, can be seen on Holyrea.blogspot.com, a website created by the founders of the park.
http://www.northtonawanda.org