Heroic Dead

Historical marker location:

3301 Broadway, Cheektowaga, New York

( Memorial is at the intersection of Ellicott Road and Union Road (New York State Route 277), on the left when traveling north on Ellicott Road.)

Marker installed: 1938

In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York. He was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz while attending the Pan-American Exposition.