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181
Creator:
New York (State). Canal Commissioners
Title:
Series:
B0716
Dates:
1840-1846
Abstract:
This series consists of records of expenditures made for improvement and repairs of the Middle Division of the Erie Canal..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
182
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title:
Resident Engineer's ledger of expenses for the enlargement of the Eastern Division of the Erie Canal
Series:
B0719
Dates:
1854-1855
Abstract:
This series consists of engineering expense records for engineers working on the Eastern Division of the Erie Canal..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
183
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title:
Series:
B0724
Dates:
1839-1845
Abstract:
This series consists of records related to the enlargement of the Erie Canal and includes summaries of valve gates and fixtures; notes related to land damage; certified accounts settled; and computations for several sections of the Erie Canal..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
184
Creator:
New York (State). State Architect
Abstract:
This series consists of one architectural rendering depicting the Barge Canal Terminal 93 exterior and including visualization of commercial details such as wagons and horses, trucks, carts, workers, and canal boats..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
185
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance
Title:
Series:
B2545
Dates:
circa 1960-1990
Abstract:
This series contains subject files pertaining to canal administration, including correspondence, studies, reports, drawings, and photographs..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
186
Creator:
New York (State). Canal Board
Abstract:
These records relating to canals include power of attorney filed with the Canal Auditor or the controller for many different purposes. Most furnished evidence of assignment of contracts for work on canals by the original contracted their party; assignments of state canal stock; transfers of claims against .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
187
Creator:
New York (State). Treasurer's Office
Abstract:
These are draft circulars to canal employees; tables of distances on canal; abstracts of blanks furnished to toll collectors; statements of tolls collected; and draft reports on canal affairs..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
188
Creator:
New York (State). Canal Investigating Commission
Title:
Series:
A0834
Dates:
1888-1912
Abstract:
This series consists of instructions, specifications, profiles, cost estimates and accounts, correspondence, photographs, and other documents relating to proposed improvements to the Erie, Champlain, and Oswego Canals. The Canal Investigating Commission investigated work already done on enlarging and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
189
Creator:
New York (State). Treasurer's Office
Title:
Series:
A0853
Dates:
1866
Abstract:
These maps and plans show proposed improvements along the Hudson and Champlain Canal. They depict bridges; culverts; waste weirs; locks; dams; waterway profiles; property owners; lot sites; and streets of towns and cities bordering the canal..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
190
Creator:
New York (State). Canal Board
Title:
Series:
A0859
Dates:
1845-1925
Abstract:
The Canal Board was responsible for regulating canal tolls, appointing various canal officers, directing special repairs, enforcing canal regulations, and hearing appeals from decisions of the Canal Appraisers regarding damage claims and related matters. This series indexes two central Canal Board record .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
191
Creator:
New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Abstract:
The Commissioners of the Canal Fund managed both revenues and debts associated with the development of the state's canal system. Subjects documented in this series include disbursement of funds, stock purchases, redemption of canal stock by individual stock holders, and the Erie Canal enlargement fund. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
192
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This volume is a ledger accounts of Commissioners of the Canal Fund for Erie and Champlain Canal Fund and stock, and for stock of the Cayuga and Seneca, Crooked Lake, Chenango, Oswego, and Black River canals. There are also accounts with the Canal Commissioners, Superintendents of Repairs, and banks .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
193
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
A1087
Dates:
1825-1837
Abstract:
Included are accounts for the following canals: Oswego, Genesee Valley, Black River, Chenango, Cayuga and Seneca, Chemung and Crooked Lake, as well as the Oneida River Improvement. Each entry provides name of payee; after date; location or type of work performed; and amount due..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
194
Creator:
New York (State). Canal Commissioners
Abstract:
These survey maps show the proposed route for the Erie Canal was made by James Geddes in 1817. The area mapped extends from "Tonewanta Creek" east to the outlet of Mud Creek in the "Great Cayuga Marsh" (Montezuma). The maps show proposed line of the canal; roads; houses; mills; settlements; streams, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
195
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title:
Series:
B0653
Dates:
approximately 1843
Abstract:
This volume contains profile drawings and diagrams of locks 98 and 99 of the Genesee Valley Canal, as well as diagrams and sketches of projects related to locks 98 and 99, including an eleven-foot lift. Only a few pages of this volume are filled out and much of it is left blank..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Title:
Series:
A0854
Dates:
1857
Abstract:
This is a map of survey lines for a 6.7 mile extension of the Genesee Valley Canal from Olean to Mill Grove Pond. Authorized in 1857 and brought into use in August 1859, the map includes names of villages; property owners along the proposed extension route; significant buildings; locks; tollgates; survey .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
197
Creator:
New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department
Title:
Series:
A1380
Dates:
1835-1876
Abstract:
Canal commissioners were required to construct and maintain road and street bridges over the enlarged Erie Canal and to construct farm bridges to accommodate landowners. This series consists of releases, vouchers, receipts, title searches, parcel maps, and resolutions authorizing commutations to claimants .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
198
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This volume contains miscellaneous accounts of an unidentified private firm, probably in Albany, dealing in lumber and firewood. It includes sales of firewood to the steamboats "Red Jacket" and "Victory.".........
Repository:
New York State Archives
199
Creator:
New York (State). Treasurer's Office
Title:
Series:
A1090
Dates:
1826-1832
Abstract:
This volume contains state treasurer's account of canal tolls and salt duties deposited in various banks in upstate New York as a security for repayment of State canal stock as a security for repayment of State canal stock. Canal toll receipts and salt duties are entered as debit and corresponding deposits .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
200
Creator:
New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Abstract:
Entries provide name of bank, amounts of money on loan and on deposit, amount remaining in each bank, and grant totals. Money was presumably for receipts from tolls deposited by Commissioners of the Canal Fund..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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