Did You Know Tonawanda Was Once a Lake?!
Here's something I bet you didn't know: 10,000 years ago Tonawanda and the surrounding areas were covered by a massive lake!
The lake was located on the south side of the Niagara Escarpment east of the current location of the Niagara River in between Early Lake Erie and a Glacial Lake Iroquois (which would become Lake Ontario) to the north.
The lake soon e...