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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 ...
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."
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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]
The unit was reformed at Niagara Falls on 1 December 1952, absorbing the resources of the 8136th Air Base Squadron, which had been formed on 1 June in anticipation of the squadron's return to state service. Forty per cent of the 136th's personnel served overseas, [3] many in Korea, and provided combat experience for the squadron. [17]
In 1882 Schoellkopf partnered with Charles Brush who had come to Niagara Falls with a dynamo and 16 carbon arc lights which were used on the streets of Niagara Falls, New York. [5] The first dynamo had a capacity of 1,800 horsepower and ran up to 1904 when it was abandoned in favor of Station No. 2.
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1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck August 10–11 – United States – Chatsworth, Illinois –1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck: A fifteen-car train of fully occupied Pullman sleepers and coaches on the Toledo, Peoria and Western bound for Niagara Falls, approached a wooden trestle over a shallow "run" just before midnight that was on fire ...