Until the 1920s, a horse and carriage was still the primary mode of transportation for many in Niagara. The Town of Niagara had a few livery stables such as Michael Greene (and later Jack Greene) on King Street and Daniel Waters on Prideaux.
To see the best tennis 125 years ago, you would have headed to the Queen’s Royal Hotel, now the site of Queen’s Royal Park off King Street in the Old Town district.
Built during the late 19th-century boom period, the pumphouse supplied the town with water from the Niagara River until 1983.
An archeological dig held in 1998 discovered that the site appears to have been frequented by hunter-gatherers more than 6,000 years ago.
