NEH funding creation of Cataract House 'manuscript'

Oct. 12—A federal grant for a research project about the old Cataract House will lead to more of its history being preserved. The National Endowmen...

October 19, 2022
2:10 PM

Oct. 12—A federal grant for a research project about the old Cataract House will lead to more of its history being preserved. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $249,369 to the University of Buffalo earlier this year, through the Collaborative Research grant program. The money will go towards creating a print manuscript and website about Cataract House, a hotel built along the Niagara River with a history of Underground Railroad activity. The manuscript is titled "From the Cataract House to Canada: African American Activism and the Underground Railroad in the Niagara River Borderland.

Rob Creenan