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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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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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Jane McCrea was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War whose reported death at the hands of Algonquin allies of the British became a motivating event for the American rebels. This Site is three Miles south of Fort Edward on the west side of Route 4. The Historic marker reads as follows:
ORIGINAL BURIAL PLACE OF
JANE McCREA
JULY 28, 1777
N.Y. STATE
HISTORICAL
MARKER
1927
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Added: 9th September 2007
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During the American Revolutionary War, in 1777, Jane McCrea was a 17 year old Loyalist living at the farm of her older brother, Col. John McCrea at Fort Edward, NY to be close to her fiancé, Lt. David Jones, a loyalist serving with British General Burgoyne's army. On July 27th of that year, while she was visiting the home of Mrs. McNeil, the two women were captured by Indians allied to the British. Since both women were under the protection of General Burgoyne, they were reasonably sure nothing would happen to them. Their captors separated into two bands, each with one of the women. When Mrs. McNeil, a cousin of General Simon Fraser's, arrived with her captors at the British camp, she wondered where Jane was, since she had departed ahead of Mrs. McNeil. Shortly thereafter, the first party of Indians returned to the camp with a fresh scalp lock. It seems an argument had ensued over Jane McCrea, and to settle the argument, she had been killed. Other reports however state she was accidentally killed by friendly fire as the Indians made off with her. She was buried three miles south of Fort Edward. Though a Tory sympathizer, her death, and those of others in similar raids, inspired some of the resistance to Burgoyne's invasion leading to his defeat at the Battle of Saratoga. But the effect expanded later as reports of the incident were used, almost as propaganda, to excite rebel sympathies during the war, especially before the Sullivan Expedition in 1779. The story had become a part of American folklore when James Fennimore Cooper described some similar events in his novel "The Last of the Mohicans". Later on, 1852, McCrea's remains were removed and re-interred at the Union Cemetery in the Town of Fort Edward. McCrea's remains were exhumed in 2003 and researchers were surprised to find that McCrea's skull was missing, and her bones were commingled with those of another Revolutionary-era woman, Sara McNeil, a landowner and a cousin of British Gen. Simon Fraser. The bodies were exhumed again in 2005 in order to provide separate graves for both women.
This Marker is posted outside the Broadway (Route 4) entrance to the Union Cemetery in Fort Edward.
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Added: 9th September 2007
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This marker is located in Gaines on historic Ridge Road (State Rt 104) near the intersection of today's Route 279. Gaines was once a dominant community in this region, but when the Erie Canal's route was surveyed three miles south of Gaines in the early 1820s, the village of Albion (then Newport) quickly grew there to become the larger village. Hoping for comments by those who know more about this academy.
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Added: 13th 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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Marker is located on the west side of the village of Avon on the south side of Route 5.
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Added: 6th October 2007
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