Seriously. Nobody took any pictures of this? There have to be pics somewhere.
Pic…
PS: scribd.com sucks.
This is what I was talking about. The Falls was diverted in 1969. I was 6 for the record…
Cool pic Butch. It seems that there’d be a pic somewhere from 1848…
There is but I can’t find it. I saw it years ago. It could have been a painting maybe.
I would be the first one down there to see it, thats for sure 
its crazy actually how much the water level can change in an hour below the falls, this summer i was down there…standing in the same area I usually hang out in…a good 3 feet above the water, 1 hour later…i would be up to my knees or more in rapids, crazy stuff
but yea, at night, the water drops a few feet down there, not until it gets closer to midnight though
There is. I posted it…
Photography was more or less just an experimental thing until the 1850’s or so. The article said that the river was only dry for about 30 hours, so I’m not surprised that nobody manged to capture an image of it.
EDIT: ORLY there’s a pic? Cool. The hotlink didn’t work, but I followed the link and saw it. Is that really of the time that the river rank dry?
Are you guys blind?
Source: http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/niagara-falls-frozen-1848.html
LOL nevermind, I can’t read…
thats an awesome pic!
I guess that pic is on display at a niagara falls library. They’re not sure if it’s actually of the ice jam in 1848 or a time when the falls just mostly froze back in 1912.
Either way, cool stuff. Too bad global warming will keep us from ever getting to walk around the riverbed. 
In 1848 when the ice jam occurred at the mouth of the river it was 46 degrees out. Don’t forget it was almost April. The temperature rose to 64 degrees and the wind changed direction thus releasing the ice jam a day later. So, no the falls wouldn’t have been frozen at that time, just dry.
Dude, you should write to snopes. That makes perfect sense but they said it’s inconclusive about whether or not that pic is from 1848.
You win!
Not the pic I saw before. You can still see water falling in that one. The one I saw had a dry river.
Woah, I barely made WOODSTOCK by a few short months. I was not around for JFK which was years earlier. lol.
just always remember… BACK and to the left… BACK and to the left…
here is pic from 1911 when it froze
never heard about the 1848 thing, pretty cool
was there a sale on black coats?