The Niagara Falls History Museum is receiving a rare piece of local history.
Bob and Vera Gale are donating a 1698 edition of a book written by French missionary and explorer Father Louis Hennepin.
It contains the first known written description and illustration of Niagara Falls by a European.
The book documents Hennepin's travels through the Great Lakes region in the late 1600s, and is considered a rare first issue of the English edition.
The museum will formally receive the donation Thursday.
(Written by: Matt Latour)