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During the mid-1960s, journalist Cliff Spieler of the Niagara Gazette published a series of articles warning that the American Falls were in danger of "disappearing" due to erosion and rockfall (two major incidents occurring in 1931 and 1954). By…

Promotional brochure from the motor age--"There is no Automobile Road Through the Gorge"--was created by an electric railway company started in the early 1890s. Capt. John M. Brinker, a Buffalo businessman, had the perseverance to capitalize a…