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Erie Canal passengers were shuttled the eighteen miles between Albany and Schenectady, rather than being asked to endure long delays at the sixteen locks needed to get over the Cohoes Falls. Stagecoaches were used at first, and later this railroad
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Added: 24th July 2007
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The Governor Cleveland on the Mohawk River in the eastern section of the Erie canal
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Added: 27th July 2007
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Straight roads are common of course; but not many can boast the amount of history thats behind these two that cross the Erie Canal in Western New York State.
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Holland
Land
Company
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Added: 3rd September 2007
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The Erie Canal crosses the Irondequoit creek east of Rochester. The gully created by that creek had to be built up with fill because it was impractical to use locks there. The canal's tendency to leak in filled-in stretches like this prompted the use of a concrete liner along this entire section; but it wasn't enough to prevent a major blowout in 1911 during the Erie's modern "Barge Canal" enlargement (1905-1918). Photos courtesy Town of Perinton historian
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Embankment
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Added: 16th August 2007
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"Your Life Work" is apparently a series done for television. This one gives an overview of the careers created by the telecommunications industry.
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telecommunications
telephone
telegraph
careers
1956
Added: 20th August 2007
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Canal towns grew like beads on a necklace wherever there was a reason for commerce to prosper. Here it was where the canal intersected with a highway.
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Added: 27th August 2007
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This marker is located on Terminal Road (the road named for the Barge Canal era freight TERMINAL) in the hamlet of Crescent, NY, Town of Halfmoon in Saratoga County beside Route 9 and in front of two old Erie Canal era buildings.
CRESCENT
Named from Crescent Shape
of Mohawk River at this point.
Site of Indian Carry from
Mohawk River to Hudson River.
Site of Old Crescent Bridge.
State Education
Department 1939
Crescent:
Before the 1822 digging for the Erie Canal in Crescent it was a pretty sleepy little town with a few houses and mills on the Stenna Kill. After that farmers shipped hay, grain, produce and ice on the canal. There were brickyards shipping bricks, and molding sand was sent to foundries. A financier named Al Noxon built a block of stores, a hotel, a paint shop, the
Crescent Iron Foundry, and the Farmers Bank of Saratoga County. In 1847 Crescent had its own newspaper, The Crescent Eagle, and the Halfmoon Bridge Company opened a toll road across the river on the east side of the aqueduct. By 1870 Crescent had a drug store, dry goods, meat market, grocery, shoemaker, harness maker, two hotels, and a physician/surgeon. There was also a dry dock to build and repair canal boats. Other nearby industries were a sawmill, gristmill, iron foundry, malt house, grain elevator and feed mill, plaster lime & cement company, brickyards and a molding sand dealer.
There is an article about the Crescent Bridge, found HERE .
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Added: 6th September 2007
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This sign marks the site where both the Original and Enlarged Erie Canal entered the tidal waters of the Hudson River in Albany, NY
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Added: 7th September 2007
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