Niagara Falls Facts

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!

The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!

The winter of 1912 was so cold that Niagara Falls partially froze, creating a massive ice bridge that tourists could walk across.

A 7-year-old boy went over Niagara Falls with only a life jacket, and lived. In 1960, Roger Woodward, his 17-year-old sister and a family friend were in a small boat that lost power and flipped above the falls. Two tourists pulled his sister out 20 feet from the edge, but Roger and the friend went over, and the friend drowned. Below the falls, the Maid of the Mist crew got a life ring to Roger and hauled him aboard.