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From Goat Island, Niagara Fails, N. Y.
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From Goat Island,
The Bridge to Goat
the sights of Niagara
structure and takes
Niagara
Falls.
Island is one of
I is a beautif
place of several
previous crude wooden after that served
as passage way as three-quarte
of a century The first. Bridge was
erected in 1870 It was arood away by
The ice the following Spring. Other
bridges were erecte 191 1818 1839, 1849
and 1856. The piers were formed first
by building a massive abutment of tim
ber on the water's edge, from which were
projected enormously long and heavy
beams of timber. These were secured
by great piles of stone, and their outer
ends rendered steady by stilts thrust
into the bottom of the river. A platform
was then built, loaded with stone and
sunk, and on this a pier was built.
We have heit in
quite a busy day,
but it was certainly
worth while to
come here, Love
from, marion.
mrs. H. C. Greene,
Bradford,
Box 199
est.
