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Partly due to the demands of restoring and maintaining Stenton, Logan gave up his career as a physician and became a gentleman farmer and politician. [2] At Stenton, the couple entertained a wide circle of politicians, artists, writers, and businesspeople, counting among their friends Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. [3]
Stenton was named for Logan's father's Scottish birthplace, and was built between 1723 and 1730 on 511 acres (2.07 km 2) as the country seat of James Logan, who was recognized in his lifetime as "a universal man in the Renaissance tradition."
The loss in 1933 was estimated at $1 million (equivalent to $23,537,000 in 2023). [2] Harry Oakes, a mining millionaire bought the property and presented it to the Niagara Parks Commission. Oakes Garden Theater was built on the site and opened in September 1937, as part of a plan to beautify the entrance into Canada at the Honeymoon Bridge.
Niagara Falls, New York, the U.S. city adjacent to the falls; Niagara County, New York. Niagara Falls State Park, the oldest state park in the US; Niagara Escarpment AVA, New York wine region; Niagara, New York, a town; Fort Niagara, near Youngstown, New York; Niagara Frontier, a region south of Lakes Ontario and Erie; Buffalo–Niagara Falls ...
The Niagara Scow View of the Toronto Power House with the scow in the background, 1922. The Niagara Scow (also called the Old Scow or Iron Scow) is the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara Falls, in 1918. The wreck can still be seen ...
Honeycutt lost use of the boat's propeller some 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) from the falls. [33] The boat subsequently capsized in the rapids. Deanne was pulled from the river just 20 feet (6.1 m) from the brink of the falls, but Roger and Honeycutt were taken over the falls.
Stenton station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 529-599 Vernon Road between Ardleigh and Blakemore Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 8.6 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 430 boardings and 124 alightings on an ...
They were replaced in Niagara Falls by the Tier II Flyers the same year. They played four season in the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League . In 1976, the Tier II Flyers made way for the St. Catharines Black Hawks who were relocated as the second incarnation of the Tier I Niagara Falls Flyers.