It was a large ship – over 176 ft. long and about 27 ft. wide. On August 9, 1841, the Erie departed Buffalo carrying 343 passengers. Many of these passengers were recent immigrants who were ...

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

Local century home, built in 1841, set for auction ...

In February 1841, United Canada's new constitution came into effect. Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine withdrew from a Lower Canadian election when confronted by a mob near the only polling place in a ...