The word "Lackawanna" refers to the steel company's original location in the river valley of the same name, in eastern Pennsylvania.

[4] Originally part of the Buffalo Creek Reservation, the area was not open to settlement until 1842 when the Seneca Indians sold it.

In 1899, the Lackawanna Steel Company, based in Scranton, Pennsylvania since its founding, purchased all the land along the West Seneca shore of Lake Erie.

In 1909, the area's residents voted to split from West Seneca, forming the city of Lackawanna.

[7] After another violent strike in 1941, the CIO finally succeeded in negotiating a contract for the Lackawanna steel workers.

[citation needed] Due to industrial restructuring in the latter half of the 20th century, as well as property tax assessment increases levied on the plant by the city, the steel plant declined in business and eventually closed in 1983, following massive job layoffs.

Opponents say that the brownfield is not safe and claim that contaminants in the field have caused cancer and other medical issues.

These initial eight 2.5 megawatt turbines will provide power for up to 9,000 households and are considered a sustainable energy source.

[11] The Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

[12] On November 9, 2016, a major fire broke out at the former galvanizing plant of the Bethlehem Steel complex.

This decision forbade the municipal government (Lackawanna) from interfering with the construction of a low-income housing development in a predominantly white section of the city.

[13] The Lackawanna Six (also known as the Buffalo Six) are a group of Yemeni Americans convicted of providing "material support" to Al-Qaeda.

The group was accused of traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the spring of 2001 to attend terrorist training camps.

The remaining members of the group pleaded guilty in December 2003 and were given various sentences in federal prison.

[18] At the time, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believed that the Yemeni men should be declared enemy combatants and could have been tried by a military tribunal.

[2] Lackawanna sits on Lake Erie, although the Bethlehem Steel facility's remnants occupy the waterfront.

Father Nelson Baker was responsible for the building of a working boys' home (protectory) in 1898.

Father Baker named the basilica after the shrine of Notre Dame des Victoires in Paris, which he visited as a seminarian in 1874.

Their mission is to assist birth mothers, families and adoptees through the often complex and always emotional adoption process.

[22][23] The Homes of Charity provide the funds to continue Baker's social programs through donations.

The Catholic Church named Father Baker a "Servant of God" in 1987, the first step towards declaring him a saint.

In 1999, Father Baker's remains were moved from Holy Cross Cemetery and re-interred inside the basilica.

On January 14, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI approved a document of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints declaring Father Baker "Venerable."