{"id":1238,"date":"2007-01-23T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/the-lost-city-of-niagara-falls-old-maps-reveal-a-vanished-time\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T17:05:08","slug":"the-lost-city-of-niagara-falls-old-maps-reveal-a-vanished-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/the-lost-city-of-niagara-falls-old-maps-reveal-a-vanished-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost city of Niagara Falls; Old maps reveal a vanished time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?559\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Ted Salci recalled a few childhood memories of his neighbourhood as he peered down at an ancient, yellowed map of Elgin, which came to be Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We lived right here,&#8221; said Salci, running his finger over the crumbling tissue dated 1847. &#8220;I grew up in a hotel and spent the first 20 years of my life here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The map, now protected by plastic, was originally used by William Hamilton Merritt, president of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company.<\/p>\n<p>Found among the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission archives, it was one of two maps donated Monday to Brock University&#8217;s special collection section.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Mayor Ted Salci recalled a few childhood memories of his neighbourhood as he peered down at an ancient, yellowed map of Elgin, which came to be Niagara Falls. &#8220;We lived right here,&#8221; said Salci, running his finger over the crumbling tissue dated 1847. &#8220;I grew up in a hotel and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}