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DAREDEVIL
HIGH FALLS, ROCHESTER
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Born in South Reading, Massachusetts, Sam Patch learned how to entertain crowds at an early age; performing dangerous stunts. By 1829 he became the first famous American daredevil after jumping into the River near the base of Niagara Falls. But it was in Rochester New York where Sam would meet his final fate. On November 6 1829 he first made a successful jump over the High Falls into the Genesee River. It was reported that Sam first tossed a young bear cub over the falls before jumping himself. The cub survived and climbed up onto the riverbank. One week later on Friday the 13th, Sam chose to make another jump from a higher platform suspended over the Falls, but he never resurfaced. It wasn’t until Early Spring when a farmer discovered his frozen body at the mouth of the River at Lake Ontario. Today, a leisure boat travelling along the Erie Canal bears Sam Patch’s name.