Open Road — Guides — Railroads — Canals — Bridges 



In the summer of 1832, when the cholera raged in all the 1870? 

 villages around, as Buffalo, Lockport, Lewiston, &c, not a single 

 case occurred here. Again, when this disease visited many villages 

 of the vicinity, in the summer of 1834, this place was wholly 

 exempt. 



The village of Niagara Falls on the American side, formerly 

 called Manchester, contains about 500 inhabitants. 



There are two spacious hotels in the village, the Eagle and 

 the Cataract, which will accommodate a large number of per- 

 manent guests. . . . The village also contains a Presbyterian 

 Church, and a M Union House," for the use of all other denomi- 

 nations when they choose to come to it. — It has a Paper Mill, a 

 Flouring Mill, and a few Mechanics' shops; and there is an 

 opportunity of using water here to an unlimited extent. 



Canal boats and sloops come from the Erie Canal and the 

 Lake to Porter's store-house, a short distance above the Falls. 

 There are three railroads now finished, which terminate at Niagara 

 Falls. One from Buffalo, distant twenty-two miles — one from 

 Lockport, and one from Lewiston. Stage-coaches run from the 

 Falls in all directions, and the mail passes regularly twice every 

 day. The roads from Buffalo, Lewiston, and Lockport are now 

 very good; equal to any in this region, and afford to travellers 

 many delightful views of the river, the Falls, and the rapids; — 

 especially as the road from Buffalo to Lewiston passes very near 

 the bank of the river the whole distance. The steamboat 

 Red Jacket also runs daily from Buffalo to the landing, two 

 miles above the Falls, and thence across to Chippewa, and returns 

 daily by the same route. This is a perfectly safe and very 

 pleasant route to the Falls. At Lewiston, seven miles below, 

 steamboats from Lake Ontario are daily bringing and receiving 

 passengers. Near Lewiston commences the celebrated Ridge 

 Road, — formerly, without doubt, a sand-bank on the margin of 

 Lake Ontario, — and runs east to Rochester, and thence nearly 

 to Oswego, a distance of about 1 40 miles. 



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