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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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