Buffalo Medical Journal,1914, v. 7. p. 37, advertisement.  Postcard postmarked May 6, 1913.

The historical marker at the site of Alden’s Black Water Mineral Baths: “In 1891, black mineral water was found while drilling for gas. Medicinal value as ‘nature’s remedy for rheumatism’, in 1903, became world famous. The ‘original baths’, a frame bath house, opened November 1904. Erected by Erie County Sesquicentennial Committee 1971”