One hundred and seventy two years ago this month, Mayor Horatio Brooks led the first train from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, which was met with an historic and exuberant celebration in Dunkirk as shown in the painting on left, which is hanging in City Hall. President Millard Fillmore and Secretary of State Daniel Webster were among national officials who rode all the way from the Hudson to the busy natural harbor known as Chadwick Bay. A monument to that great event was recently re-set near The Boardwalk by the Harbor by City DPW masons, with donated lifting and trucking by Lakeshore Paving. The monument is pictured at right with the latest successor to Mayor Brooks, Mayor Wilfred Rosas, and railroad history experts, Roy Davis and Roger Schulenberg, right.

One hundred and seventy two years ago this month, Mayor Horatio Brooks led the first train from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, which was met with an historic and exuberant celebration in Dunkirk as shown in the painting on left, which is hanging in City Hall. President Millard Fillmore and Secretary of State Daniel Webster were among national officials who rode all the way from the Hudson to the busy natural harbor known as Chadwick Bay. A monument to that great event was recently re-set near The Boardwalk by the Harbor by City DPW masons, with donated lifting and trucking by Lakeshore Paving. The monument is pictured at right with the latest successor to Mayor Brooks, Mayor Wilfred Rosas, and railroad history experts, Roy Davis and Roger Schulenberg, right.