New York & the Mid-Atlantic Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

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1 Niagara Falls

These famous falls are

in two separate towns:

Niagara Falls, New York

(USA) and Niagara Falls,

Ontario (Canada). The

towns face each other

across the Niagara River,

spanned by the Rainbow

Bridge. Famous landscape

architect Frederick Law

Olmstead helped rescue

and preserve the New

York side, which by the

1870s was dominated by

industry and gaudy signs.

Today, the rather derelict

TRIP HIGHLIGHT

Niagara Falls

& Around

The.history.of.western.New.York.has.been.

determined.by.the.power.of.water:.whether.via.the.

Erie.Canal.that.once.tethered.the.Great.Lakes.and.

Atlantic.seaboard.or.the.massive.hydroelectric.

plants.on.the.Niagara.River,.or.even.the.long.line.of.

daredevils.like.Nik.Wallenda.who.tightrope.walked.

over.Niagara.Falls..And.while.industrial.boom.

and.bust.cycles.have.come.and.gone,.the.canals,.

rivers,.lakes.and.falls.have.never.lost.their.sheen..

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