@BhargavRao, actually, I can just copy-paste the answer from the link, but I think that this question can be also marked as a dupe of the question I refer to. However, I'm not sure... â Ilya V. Schurov Dec 2 '14 at 13:00.
First barrel ride down Niagara Falls. On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898.
Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet (50 m).iagara Falls (/naÉªËaeÉ¡rÉ/ , NaÉªËÃ¦É¡rÉ: Cayuga gahnawehtaË Or) tgahnawÄhtaË is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border Between canada and The United; states more, specifically between the province Of ontario and the state Of New. York they form the southern end of The Niagara. gorge