Niagara Falls wasn’t always a postcard tourist spot. In the early 1900s it became a major industrial center powered by the falls, transforming from a sacred site for Indigenous nations into one of North America’s most powerful industrial hubs with the world’s first large-scale hydroelectric plants. This episode examines the rise and dramatic fall of Niagara’s mills district: how Tesla and Westinghouse helped turn it into an electrical powerhouse, why industries like aluminum and chemicals clustered there, and how environmental disasters such as Love Canal left lasting scars. Today’s Niagara is a shadow of its industrial past, but the ruins, tunnels, and power stations still reveal that history.

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