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Title: Cutler's guide to Niagara Falls, and adjacent points of interest. --
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Cutler, Charles, 1837-1912
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Publisher: (Niagara Falls : N.Y. : Charles Cutler
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University

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connected with a house which was at that time part of FortDu Portage, afterwards known as Little Fort Niagara. Thesewere destroyed by the French when they evacuated the placesoon after the fall of Old Port Niagara, and it was here thatFort Schlosser was built some time afterward. The houseswith which the old stone chimney has been connected weredestroyed by fire, but being substantially built the old chimneyhas continued to stand as a monumental history for 150years. Capt. Joseph Schlosser, a German by birth, but a Britisharmy officer, built Fort Schlosser in 1761. He remained herein command, and was later promoted to the rank of colonel;he died at the fort and was buried near by. One of the houses built by the old stone chimney was usedas a residence by Judge Porter in 1806-7 and8. Later it wasused as a tavern and accommodated visitors to the Falls, andwas thus in use when destroyed by the British in 1813. Thelast house built by the old chimney was used as a farm housefor many years.
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Falls Street.—Looking West from Third Street. THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTON HEIGHTS. TN THE early days of October, 1812, Major General Van-•*■ Rensselaer collected an army of about 2,500 men at Lewis-ton, composed mostly of new recruits of New York militia.These became restless in camp and wanted to move on theenemy, and as it afterwards proved they were more anxiousfor a move than a tight. On October 12, Colonels Chrystie and Fenwith, with 450regulars, came up from Niagara, seven miles distant, andplans were immediately made for an attack on QueenstonHeights early on the following morning. Late on the evening of the day hrst mentioned, ColonelWinlield Scott, who had been in quarters at Black Rock,where the city of Buffalo is now situated, after a forced marchwith his regiment to Fort Schlosser, nine miles from Lewiston,hurriedly rode into the camp of General \anRensselaer andvolunteered the services of himself and regiment. As all theplans had been previously arranged for the engagem

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