The month of February is for celebrating Black history! This week we learn about local businessman Lewis Ross, who had a barbershop on Queen Street. This image shows an advertisement he issued in the Niagara Mail Newspaper in 1865. He was the town’s only barber on Queen Street in the late 1800s. Ross managed to survive a fire that destroyed his barbershop and house. According to a report in the Niagara Herald on March 4, 1886, “his building was insured, his valuable household effects were mostly saved with slight damage.” He moved his barbershop to a new location on Queen Street closer to King Street.