Illi love biography of william t
Illi love biography of william t smith.
In 1892, a mysterious man named William T. Love came to Niagara Falls. Depending on who you ask, he had either a plan or a scheme to generate hydroelectricity and create a utopian community called Model City.
Love’s specific idea was to build an artificial waterfall in the Niagara Gorge and a canal that would connect the upper and lower Niagara River.
Illi love biography of william t
Water flowing into the river from the waterfall would generate hydroelectricity via a power plant in Model City.
Love envisioned Model City “rising out of the orchards and fields of Lewiston, where the Niagara River flows into Lake Ontario north of Niagara Falls.” He “foresaw perfect streets, perfect schools, perfect factories, perfect sanitation--in short, a model city.
In their deeds, landowners had to swear they would never sell alcohol.”
Model City would have everything its residents needed, including stores, schools, churches, small businesses, and residential homes.
Love estimated that