Excerpt from A New Guide to Niagara Falls and Vicinity: Giving a Full and Complete Description of Niagara Falls, Suspension Bridge, Buffalo, Rochester, Ontario Beach, Toronto, Lockport, Tonawanda, Lewiston, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Chautauqua, and Other Places of Interest Almost imperceptibly but steadily the town began to enlarge. The Land Company disposed rapidly of their lots at prices ranging from $120 to $400 each. At this time land beyond Chippewa Street, on Main, was selling for $11 and $12 per acre. The first death in the young community occurred in 1804, when John Cochrane, a migratory Yankee from the land of steady habits, departed this life, and Was buried in the little cemetery, laid out by William Johnston, on land belonging to him, now covered by the building known as the Washington Block. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.