Prospect Point and American Falls, Niagara Falls, NY, 1929

About this postcard

The view looks down from Prospect Point on the American side of Niagara Falls, with the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls dropping over the cliff at left and the long crest of Horseshoe Falls visible across the river. A small tour boat works the churning basin below. The printed caption calls Prospect Point a place where the "mightiest sweep of the awe-compelling flood" is both seen and best realized, with the roar of the water and rising mist filling the scene. Prospect Point has long been the classic American-side overlook at the brink of the falls and sits within Niagara Falls State Park, established in 1885 as the oldest state park in the United States. The boat below is the kind used by the Maid of the Mist, which has carried sightseers to the foot of the falls since the mid-nineteenth century.