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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 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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Added: 16th August 2007
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The Sign is on the north side of the Mohawk River, in Crescent, but there are stone remains on both the south and north bank of the river. There were two different Aqueducts at this site; The first "Clinton's Ditch" aqueduct was a wooden structure supported by twelve stone piers. It served from the canals opening in 1825 until 1842.
The second "Lower Mohawk Aqueduct", which was built of stone in 1842, was 1,137 feet in length, 40.5 feet wide (interior width) and had 26 stone arch spans. It stood for 73 years until the New State Barge Canal system opened in 1915. It was the longest aqueduct in the state.
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Added: 7th September 2007
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Blenheim Covered Bridge
The Old Blenheim Bridge is located in the Town of Blenheim on State Route 30 in North Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York. It spans the Schoharie Creek and is "double-barreled" or has two separate lanes. At 232 feet in length between the stone abutments, this bridge has the unique distinction of being "the longest covered single span wooden bridge in the world" and one of only six remaining bridges in the world with two separated lanes. It is constructed of Long truss with a center arch. The bridge was built in 1854-5 by Nicholas M. Powers under contract for the Blenheim Bridge Company (inc. 1828) as a toll bridge and retired from use in 1931, and was listed as a National Historic Landmark on January 29, 1964; placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966; and is now a National Historic Engineering Landmark, 1984.
It's interesting to note that the bridge was not originally built in place over the Schoharie Creek as most folks would imagine, but rather was assembled at a site nearby, to insure the pieces all fit together correctly. Afterwards it was disassembled and erected in its present location across the creek. Ninety-four thousand board feet (127 tons) of lumber, 3,600 pounds of bolts and 1,500 pounds of washers were used in its construction. Nicholas Powers was paid $7.00 a day ($2,000 total) and the workmen received $1.00 a day. When the bridge was completed in 1855 it cost $6,000. During construction scoffers said that the bridge would fall due to its own weight with the removal of the falsework (falsework being the temporary scaffolding, also called "bents", made of heavy logs, which were used to support the bridge during construction). When the day came, Powers climbed to the roof and said, "If the bridge goes down, I never want to see the sun rise again!" People then said that the bridge would sag so much as to be useless. Powers replied that if this happened he would jump off. When the falsework was taken away the bridge settled only slightly, even less than Powers had calculated.
Local lore has it that while the stone abutments were being built one of the masons was sent to fetch a jug of rye whiskey. Before they got a chance to open the jug and imbibe the president of the bridge company, J. Dickinson, who was a "teetotaller" (it's an archaic term by today’s standard, a tetotallar being someone who practices and promotes the complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages) arrived unannounced to inspect the progress of the bridge. The masons were forced to hastily hide the jug in the first available spot which happened to be a niche in the abutment. As work proceeded at a quicker pace under the eagle eye of the company president, who wouldn't leave, the masons were forced to build up the stonework around the jug before it was rescued, and supposedly, it remains there to this day.
"The picturesque old bridge has had many adventures. It has been afire three times and is now insured like any ordinary house. Twice the roof caught fire from windblown sparks and embers from burning buildings in the village. And once, many years ago, when traveling tinkers went about mending pots and pans, carrying a small charcoal stove to heat their soldering irons, one of these tinkers went so sleep in the bridge and tipped his stove over. The hot coals ignited the wooden bridge but someone happened along in time to put the fire out and to sober up the "tinker" in the nearby river." – Schenectady Union-Star: Feb. 26, 1930
Old Covered Bridge - North Blenheim, NY
(Click Photo Above For More Images of Bridge)
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Added: 8th September 2007
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Old Fort Johnson is located on Route 5 in the Village of Fort Johnson in the south part of the Town of Amsterdam, just west of the City of Amsterdam, NY. The Fort was build by Sir William Johnson in 1749. As the largest single landowner and most influential individual in the settlement of the Mohawk Valley, Johnson had prestige and leadership which extended beyond the region. His genius in dealing and trading with the Indians had a lasting impact on their relationship with the English, and influenced England's victory in the struggle for control of North America. Today the Fort is a museum and more. While the fortifications no longer exist, the house remains and is owned and operated as a museum by the Montgomery County Historical Society. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972.
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Added: 8th September 2007
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The Town of Gilboa in Schoharie County, NY was formed in 1848 from regions taken from the Towns of Blenheim and Broome and named after the prominent
community of Gilboa in the town. The name "Gilboa" is taken from a location in Israel.
In 1926, The 120-foot high Gilboa Dam was completed on the Schoharie Creek, which is a tributary of the Mohawk River, forming the Schoharie Reservoir. The
original settlement of Gilboa was razed and flooded as part of this project that supplies New York City with water. A new settlement was established north of the
reservoir.
The view shown is from along route 990V, south of present day hamlet of Gilboa.
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Added: 8th September 2007
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This film belongs in a category for "The Absurd". The moral apparently is, in the event of a nuclear attack, be sure your house has "fire-safe housekeeping". Or this statement:
The heat from the thermal blast "only chars both [well-painted exterior] surfaces", describing the split second between when the heat wave hit the house and the shock wave flattened it. The so-called "National clean up - paint up - fix up bureau" who produced this film may or may not have been ignorant, but they certainly were counting on the fact that the viewers would be.
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Added: 27th September 2007
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When you walk across muck, you can feel the soil springing under your feet. It's almost like walking on finely ground peat moss. Onions are grown here, along with potatoes and other crops that don't do well in soils where there are a lot of stones. This marker is on Route 98 about half-way between Rochester and Buffalo.
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Added: 29th September 2007
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Anthony Wayne Parkway Marker - Fort Miami was a fort built on the Maumee River at the eastern edge of the present-day city of Maumee, Ohio and southwest of the present-day city of Toledo, Ohio. It was built by the British on U.S. territory in defiance of the terms of the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
The fort played a role in British support for Native American hostilities against the U.S. In August 1794, Anthony Wayne defeated the Native Americans at the Battle of Fallen Timbers within sight of Fort Miami. Under the terms of Jays Treaty, the British evacuated frontier posts within U.S. territory.
The British again occupied the site during the War of 1812, which at the time was opposite the American Fort Meigs.
The fort structure no longer stands, and the site reverted to agricultural and, later, public park use for many years, resulting in the accelerated erosion of topographical features original to the site. The site is now a protected historical site, and some of the original topographical features, though eroded, are still visible.
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Added: 30th September 2007
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The Lima and Toledo Traction Company Bridge was construted in 1907 by the National Bridge Company of Indianapolis, and it was considered to be a revolutionary type of bridge construction. The Old Electric Bridge, as it was called, was built of steel reinforced concrete and filled with earth. In fact, for this period some considered the bridge to be the longest such railroad bridge in the world. Twelve spans of Roman aqueduct architectural design anchor the 1220-foot bridge in solid river bedrock. The bridge linked Lucas and Wood counties and connected a busy Toledo with points south by means of an electric trolley. This Interurban Bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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Added: 1st October 2007
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