{"id":20860,"date":"2017-09-18T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20860"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T17:44:39","slug":"the-history-of-chippawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/the-history-of-chippawa\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of Chippawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/09\/10\/the-history-of-chippawa\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>History came alive Sunday as Sherman Zavitz, the city\u2019s official historian, hosted a walking tour of Chippawa.<\/p>\n<p>Before a crowd of 80 people, Zavitz said the area was first mentioned 339 years ago, even before there was a town.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 7, 1678, Louis Hennepin, a missionary and explorer, became the first European to view the mighty Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was awed by the spectacle,\u201d Zavitz said. \u201cHe later wrote in his diary the falls were a vast and prodigious cadence of water falling down in an astonishing manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That night, Hennepin and his company set up camp alongside the Welland River, in an area now known as Kingsbridge Park.<\/p>\n<p>The walking tour focused on the history of the area on both sides of the river, commonly referred to as Chippawa Creek.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: History came alive Sunday as Sherman Zavitz, the city\u2019s official historian, hosted a walking tour of Chippawa. Before a crowd of 80 people, Zavitz said the area was first mentioned 339 years ago, even before there was a town. On Dec. 7, 1678, Louis Hennepin, a missionary and explorer, became&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[2835,13045,739,10302,1089,1139,737,4335,13046],"class_list":["post-20860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-chippawa","tag-chippawa-creek","tag-historian","tag-kingsbridge-park","tag-louis-hennepin","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-sherman-zavitz","tag-walking-tour","tag-welland-river"],"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\/20860","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20861,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860\/revisions\/20861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}