Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) also fell in love with the beauty of this waterfall as he described in his novel, Roughing it (excerpt above).
There’s small glimpses of Mark Twain’s life nearby throughout Elmira – where I live and where he spent his summers at Quarry Farm. Quarry Farm still exists today and is owned by Elmira College.
The original Octagonal Study where he wrote the majority of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Tramp Abroad is now located on the Elmira College campus (along College Avenue).