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Buffalo is a city in Western New York on the eastern shore of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River on the Canada-United States border, serving as the county seat of Erie County with a population of 278,349 as of the 2020 census. The Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area has over 1.16 million residents, making it the second-largest metro area in New York State and the 51st-largest in the United States. Selected as the terminus of the Erie Canal in 1825, Buffalo was incorporated in 1832 and became the world's largest grain port through transshipment, later emerging as the second-largest railway hub after Chicago and a major steel production center by the 20th century. Today, the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area has a gross domestic product of approximately $64 billion (2024), with the city's economy now centered on service industries including health care, retail, tourism, logistics, and education. Buffalo is known for its cultural institutions - including the oldest urban parks system in the United States, art and history museums, and performing arts venues - as well as its winter weather, Buffalo wings, and professional sports teams: the NFL's Buffalo Bills and NHL's Buffalo Sabres. Tonawanda is a city in Erie County, New York, located at the northern edge of the county south of the Erie Canal and north of Buffalo as part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area, with a population of 15,129 at the 2020 census. The city's name derives from the Tuscarora word Tahnawá•teh meaning "confluent stream," and it was incorporated as a city in 1904 after developing from a hamlet founded by Henry Anguish in 1808. The Erie Canal's completion through Tonawanda Creek in 1825 catalyzed economic growth, establishing the city as a leading lumber processing center by the late 19th century, with both canal banks devoted to lumber businesses and related commerce. Spaulding Fibre, founded in 1873 and operating in Tonawanda from 1911 to 1992, became the city's major employer, manufacturing leatherboard, transformer board, vulcanized fibre, bakelite, and fiberglass tube products. The historic Goose Island section, a man-made island at the canal's terminus famous from the mid-19th to early 20th century, underwent gentrification after the canal section to Buffalo was abandoned in 1918 and the lumber and boxboard industries declined. Jamestown is the largest city in southern Chautauqua County, New York, with a population of 28,712 as of the 2020 census, situated between Lake Erie to the north and the Allegheny National Forest to the south. Founded by James Prendergast in 1809 and incorporated as a city on April 19, 1886, Jamestown became a 20th-century industrial powerhouse known as the "Furniture Capital of the World," while also manufacturing the crescent wrench (produced by the Crescent Tool Company beginning in 1907) and automatic lever voting machines. Blackstone Corporation, led by Reginald Lenna, served as the city's largest employer for most of the 20th century, manufacturing washing machines and automobile components. Notable natives include comedienne Lucille Ball, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and naturalist Roger Tory Peterson. Chautauqua Lake and the nearby Furniture Mart building remain significant attractions and community resources.