Niagara Falls dairy had a horse-and-wagon delivery fleet in 1915

A bit of history from InSauga.com: Although there is precious little information online about him, the Niagara Falls Public Library Facebook page used Throwback Thursday to highlight a local dairy that delivered milk door-to-door on horse-drawn wagons back in 1915… A series of restaurants and souvenir shops took advantage of the proximity to Clifton Hill…

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Niagara Falls: WNY Land Conservancy announces ‘Restore the Gorge

From Niagara Frontier Publications: The Western New York Land Conservancy invites the community to attend a project unveiling at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Niagara Falls Public Library, for “Restore the Gorge,” its planned ecological restoration of the Niagara Gorge. With funding from phase two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion economic development…

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Tightrope walker who crossed Niagara Falls dies

From Yahoo! News: The celebrated French tightrope walker and chair-balancer known as Henry’s, who balanced high above the Alps, Niagara Falls and for months over a supermarket in his hometown, has died… At Niagara Falls in 1975, he balanced on a platform attached to a motorcycle that his friend rode across the cable over the…

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Historic photos in Falls going digital

From the Buffalo News: Many of the Niagara Falls Public Library’s historical pictures of the city are falling apart. That’s to be expected – some are 150 years old. The roughly 10,000 historic photographs in the archives of the Local History Department are being given new life thanks to a new digitization project at the…

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