Niagara is an

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in Marion County,

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, United States. It is the site of the historic

Niagara County Park Niagara County Park is a park located in the U.S. state of Oregon on the North Santiam River, 40 miles (64 km) east of Salem on the North Santiam Highway, Oregon Route 22. It is 7 miles (11 km) east of Mill City. The park protects t ...

, the first park to be created by the Marion County Park and Recreation Commission. The park consists of a historic dam, begun in the 1890s. A survey by the

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's engineering department reported that work on the dam had been abandoned by November 1904.
Water Power on the Santiam River
' by E.H McAlister, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Oregon. November 1904.

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