The original Maid of the Mist was built at a landing near Niagara Falls on the American side of the border. The boat was christened in 1846 as a border-crossing ferry; its first trip was on September 18, 1846.
(January 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Professor Roy Hinkley. Roy Hinkley, referred to as the Professor, is one of the seven castaways from the television series Gilligan's Island (1964â67); he was played by Russell Johnson.
After The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island, he also played four separate guest roles on Fantasy Island between 1978 to 1980. In 1983, he starred in another television pilot, The Invisible Woman as the bumbling mad scientist uncle of the title character, a journalist played by actress Alexa Hamilton.