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New York (State). Executive Department

 

 

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This series consists of fifteen printed engravings compiled under the direction of State Engineer and Surveyor, Van R. Richmond by S.H. Sweet, Resident Engineer. The engravings illustrate the "standard models from which are built the important structures on the New York State Canals." The engravings .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Division of Canals and Waterways. Syracuse Office

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

4

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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These series consists of survey data from a 1901 report on the Barge Canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes by Edward Bond, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and a color map of the proposed alternatives of Cohoes and vicinity to accompany the report. The map was compiled from the surveys of the .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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These are maps and plans of canal structures and works originally attached to contracts, petitions, and awards by Canal Appraisers..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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The series consists of blueprint maps and descriptions of lands temporarily appropriated by New York State for use in constructing, improving, and maintaining state canals. The maps were prepared by the Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor as part of its responsibilities in surveying, mapping, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Canal Commissioners

 

 

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These survey maps of the canal system in New York State fulfilled a law requiring a complete map and field notes of every canal in the state. The maps show: survey stations for measuring length of the canal; courses and distances (linked by red lines); canal right-of-way (blue line); locks; aqueducts; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Canal Commissioners

 

 

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The maps in this series appear to have been created by the Office of Surveyor General in compliance with legislation of 1827 requiring a complete map and field notes. Most of the maps depict specific sections of the Erie Canal and show locks; bridges; railroad bridges across canals; locations of canal .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Treasurer's Office

 

 

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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..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

10

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New York (State). Office of the Division Engineer (Erie Canal : Western Division)

 

 

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These historical abstracts concern lands in the Erie Canal's western division. The series consists of transcripts or abstracts of deeds, printed legislative documents, petitions to the Canal Board, a resolution of the Canal Board, statutes, and blueprint copies of maps of lands of the western distri.........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This volume contains survey maps of a proposed railroad from Fort Plain on the Erie Canal to Otsego Lake and of the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers, "for a Slack Water Navigation." Maps show streams; lakes; towns; roads; bridges; mills; and town and county lines..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund

 

 

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This series consists of deeds, mortgages, bonds, assignments and traced maps of lots in Buffalo. The land was conveyed to the Commissioners of the Canal Fund as collateral for two judgments against Thadeus W. Patchin, bankrupt, in 1874. In 1881 the Commissioners of the Canal Fund empowered the State .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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This series consists of data, reports, maps, and related records on watersheds and related improvements in the Western Division of the Barge Canal. Records include reports on investigations of flood damage; proposed improvements; data and computations on discharges, river slopes, elevations, water levels, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives