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From the Gowanda PennySaver News "Reflections" series compiled by Mary Pankow. issue date - May 26, 2002

c. 1882

Decoration Day - A brass marching band leads the parade as veterans of the Civil War march through Gowanda's wooden covered bridge on Decoration Day 1882, in this view from East Main and Buffalo streets looking west. The wooden bridge, built in 1862, is replaced by an iron truss bridge. (Photo courtesy of the Gowanda Area Historical Society.)