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Niagara Falls


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Niagara Falls

Manchester

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located at great falls on Niagara River, opposite Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; visited by Europeans in 17th cen.; was strategic in French and British struggle for control of Great Lakes; industry grew with arrival of power plant in 1886.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); Times Atlas of the World (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);

Born

Jake Berthot (American, 1939-2014)

John Chervinsky (American, 1961-2015)

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