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