Montresor's Tramway at foot of Escarpment, east bank of Niagara River
item
- Title
- Montresor's Tramway at foot of Escarpment, east bank of Niagara River
- Date
- ca 1975
- ca 1760
- Creator
- Breton, Carol
- Extent
- 36.22 x 26.3 cm
- Is Part Of
- Watercolour Collection
- Description
- haulage system designed to transport goods up the slope at Lewiston NY ;
- en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; Research by George Seibel ; the Montresor Tramway or portage elevator was a system called a plateway, consisting of two long troughs with iron bases and wooden sides, built on parallel lines. Through these troughs travelled the cars or cradles fastened together with a rope cable, operating on the gravity pull of the descending cart. It worked so efficiently that Montresor could boast on June 23rd 1764 that "provisions crossed as before, over this day and all now at the Fort at Little Niagara 4160 barrels", excerpted from Thundergate : the Forts of Niagara by Robert West Howard ;
- Type
- Still Image
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Subject
- Niagara River - Lower
- Ships
- Niagara Gorge
- Location
- United States - New York - Lewiston
- Canada - Ontario
- Identifier
- http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102828
- locator
- WC 42a
- Rights
- ©Niagara Falls Public Library
- Publisher
- Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation
- Date Created
- 2005-02-24
- Date Modified
- 2005-02-24
