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A Rock Island Railroad, which operates in the central states, produced this promotional film. The story introduces the Sea Train system of shipping railroad cars overseas without unloading them; and it includes a scene of a boxcar being unloaded automatically by tipping it on end. - 1950
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Added: 18th November 2007
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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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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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Added: 3rd September 2007
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Located near the intersection of Ellicott and Main Streets in Batavia, this building was the headquarters for the management of Western New York State when it was still a wilderness frontier. Today the building houses a museum open to the public.
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Added: 28th 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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Location: West State St, Albion, NY (35 miles west of Rochester). Apparently Grace was only twelve years old when she wrote her letter!
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Added: 6th September 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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