Travel with Yvonne's video: Niagara Falls Horseshoe Falls Terrapin Point

Terrapin Point is located at the western end of Goat Island nearest the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. In 1817, at Terrapin Point (Porter's Bluff), owners Peter & Augustus Porter built a 300 foot long plank walkway which extended from the mainland of Goat Island to the crest line of the Horseshoe Falls. Built of heavy timbers, the walkway extended approximately ten feet beyond the crestline of the Falls. This overhang was frequently used by Francis Abbott, the Hermit of Niagara Falls who would entertain tourists by performing acrobatic acts at the very end of this walkway. The walkway was of slight construction and had no safety railings. In September of 1954, the area of Terrapin Rocks was de-watered by use of coffer dams. The metal catwalk was removed and the area backfilled to produce a large viewing area which is today known as Terrapin Point. This back-filling was undertaken to reduce an irregular water flow over the brink of the Horseshoe which had been caused by several large rock falls near the apex of the crest of the falls and to compensate for less water flowing over the precipice because of water diversion upstream for hydro generation. Horseshoe Falls, also known as Canadian Falls, is the largest of the three waterfalls that collectively form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border. Approximately 90% of the Niagara River, after diversions for hydropower generation, flows over Horseshoe Falls. The remaining 10% flows over American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. It is located between Terrapin Point on Goat Island in the US state of New York, and Table Rock in the Canadian province of Ontario. When the boundary line between the United States and Canada was determined in 1819, based on the Treaty of Ghent, the northeastern end of the Horseshoe Falls was in New York, United States, flowing around the Terrapin Rocks, which were once connected to Goat Island by a series of bridges. In 1955, the area between the rocks and Goat Island was filled in, creating Terrapin Point.[3] In the early 1980s the United States Army Corps of Engineers filled in more land and built diversion dams and retaining walls to force the water away from Terrapin Point. Die Horseshoe Falls (deutsch „Hufeisenfälle“), auch Canadian Falls genannt, bilden einen Teil der Niagarafälle. Etwa 90 Prozent des Wassers des Niagara fließen, nach Umleitungen zur Energieerzeugung durch Wasserkraft, über die Horseshoe Falls, die sich zwischen Terrapin Point auf Goat Island im US-Bundesstaat New York und Table Rock in der kanadischen Provinz Ontario befinden. Als 1819 der Grenzverlauf zwischen den USA und Kanada im Frieden von Gent bestimmt wurde, lag das nordöstliche Ende der Horseshoe Falls im Bundesstaat New York bei den Terrapin Rocks, die früher über verschiedene Brücken mit Goat Island verbunden waren. 1955 wurde der Bereich zwischen den Felsen und Goat Island aufgefüllt; Terrapin Point entstand. Gemafreie Musik von https://www.cayzland.de