Niagara Falls
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- Names
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);
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