This is a unique perspective of the former pumphouse (now the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre) from the Niagara River. Built during the late 19th-century boom period, the pumphouse supplied the town with water from the Niagara River until 1983. The steam pumps also generated electricity for our growing town. The lighthouse is seen on the right side of the photograph. Both buildings still stand today. You can see a dock with a small boat house out in front and the pilings of a previous dock, or perhaps shore protection from the spring ice flow, all along the shore. During its heyday, the pumphouse would have been considered “out of town,” but today there are a number of homes along this shoreline. On the hill to the left is the remains of Fort George, which wouldn’t be reconstructed until the 1930s.