Old Stone Chimney

Previously located in the former Porter Park on Buffalo Avenue, at the foot of 10th Street along an embankment of the Niagara Scenic Parkway, close to the exit ramp to John B. Daly Boulevard.

Niagara was the largest obstacle between these other two points in establishing a water-route fur trade that realized the potential of the Great Lakes interior.

Built by Daniel Joncaire in 1750[3] at the southern terminus of the Niagara Portage,[4] the French utilized the Chimney and the rest of the fort for nearly a decade.

[6] Portage Master Johnathan Stedman succeeded Schlosser, and lived in a house which utilized the Chimney from 1763 until the end of the British era.

The British made improvements to the Portage, including the construction of an incline tramway at the Niagara Escarpment and ox-pulled carts to relay cargo.

Stedman was part of the British company and survived the massacre, and returned to his home on the banks of the Niagara River and the reassurance of its hearth.

In 1840, the Chimney and Old Stedman Farm was transferred to General Peter B. Porter (Augustus' brother and business partner), and was incorporated as part of another house.

An 1891 campaign included the popularization of a song written by Niagara Falls historian Thomas Vincent Welch,[7] a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt.

It was moved again in 1942, again each stone numbered and replaced precisely, the work supervised carefully by local historian Edward T. Williams, the considerable cost was paid by the Niagara Power Company and Carborundum.