From the Niagara Falls Review:
The rusty scow - perched on a small piece of land in the Niagara River about 2,500 feet above the Horseshoe Falls -is a reminder of what could have been.
Today it remains an icon for millions of tourists, easily visible from shore stranded on its perch just above the falls.
It was just around 3 p. m. on Aug. 6, 1918 when a tug owned by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. of Buffalo struck a sandbar, colliding with enough force to snap the line, causing the unnamed vessel it was pulling to drift toward the brink of the falls.
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It still never mentions the significance of why this rust-bucket is still there. Sure, it made a rescue… so why hasn’t anyone bothered to remove that so-called ‘icon’, and clean up the waterway just a little bit more?
if all historical icons were removed..so is the history itself..the scow is a part of the falls history..most of the drummond hill cemetary stones are broken and a mess..including laura secord’s..tear it down cuz it’s a messy icon too?…besides..the scow makes a great story for tourists..well..i think so anyhow..
And the cost to get equipment to it would be astronomical. Besides, I don’t think it will be too many years before it completely disintegrates on it’s own.
I have said for as often as we go to the Falls, I wish that I am there to watch it crack apart and go over the Falls. That would be so cool!!!!
Isn’t it a Hazzaed. What would happen if it did go over the falls and land on the maid of the Mist. It will be many more years before the ship disintgrates. We still have the Titanic and some experts say that it still has 50 years.
The Titanic doesn’t have the natural fresh chemicals of Lake Erie washing through it 24/7, eating away at the boat speeding up the process with the 3-eyed fish commiting suicide over the falls.
I’ve always wondered why the rocks/dirt haven’t eroded around it enough to free it. There is so much talk of the Falls eroding so much every year. Why wouldn’t the same be true of the ground the scow sits on? Could just be sitting on a really big rock I guess.
Actually, the scow bottom eroded away years ago, just the sides still hanging in there. If so much water wasn’t diverted to the hydro generating stations, I’m sure the scow would be long gone but with the low levels, very little water touches it any more. This also affects the Falls erosion, which is only inches per year now.