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SOME OLD CITY VIEWS
  OF NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.


"History was made in 1896 when first  long distance transmission of AC electricity from Adams was used to light street lamps in  Buffalo.  Generators originally installed  . . . were still in use in 1961."

Niagara Mohawk News - Sep-Oct 1961




"Original  Schoellkopf Station, . . ., had 19 units totaling 34,000 HP.  It was abandoned when section A was built in 1914."

Niagara Mohawk News -  July-Aug 1956

Adams Station - Built 1895

Original Schoellkopf Station 
Completed 1904

Electric Power Plants

Office Bldg., Hydraulic Power Company

Power House #1, N.F. Power Co.

  Power House #1, N.F. Power Co.

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