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Terrapin Point, at the western tip of Goat Island beside the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, New York, is one of the main overlooks on the New York side and offers close views from the brink into the lower Niagara Gorge. It began as the Terrapin Rocks, a separate cluster of rocks at the waterfall’s edge. In 1827 Peter and Augustes Porter built a wooden bridge to the rocks, and six years later added Terrapin Tower, a popular but controversial attraction demolished in 1873. Its present form emerged from 1954–1955 river work, followed by major stabilization in 1983. In 2012 it became the starting point for Nik Wallenda’s high-wire walk over the falls.
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