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Red Hook (N.Y. : Town)

 

 

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Microfilmed records of the Town of Red Hook include town histories (1748-1889), zoning permits and maps (1970-1996), planning board meeting minutes (1967-1998), and water board meeting minutes (1988-1998)..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of 64 charts and maps of the Erie Canal from Waterford to Buffalo, and of the Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga-Seneca canals. They were seemingly prepared by the Department of Public Works to aid ships or boats in navigating canal waterways. Navigation charts are mixed with survey .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

83

Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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This series consists of detailed sectional maps dating from the 1895 improvement of the Erie Canal. Maps show property and buildings fronting the canal and land tracts on either side of the canal. Information includes property lines and owners; previous canal alignments; locations of ditches, washes, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

84

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New York (State). Education Department. Assistant Commissioner for District Organization and District Superintendents

 

 

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"County files" were created by the assistant commissioner responsible for supervising district superintendents of schools and boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES). Files for district superintendents contain correspondence and memoranda concerning school district organization plans and .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

85

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New York (State). Department of Economic Development

 

 

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This series is a portfolio of blue line maps of the site, geology, and land use of a proposed super-conducting super collider (SSC) nuclear particle research facility in Orange County. Maps indicate the exact route of the never built tunnel. The first plate in the portfolio lists all attachments by .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

86

Creator:

New York State Museum of Natural History

 

 

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This series consists of two almost identical versions of a published geological chart and a small accompanying published key prepared by James Hall entitled ''A chart giving an ideal section of successive geological formations with an actual geological section, from the Atlantic, to the Pacific Ocean." .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

87

Creator:

New York (State). Surveyor General

 

 

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This series consists of an oversize atlas containing eleven maps depicting lot boundaries and types within the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation. The maps appear to have been produced circa 1849 by Deputy Surveyor John Randell, Jr., or to have been produced based on surveying data collected by him in .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

88

Creator:

New York (State). Office of General Services

 

 

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The South Mall (Empire State Plaza) site map includes topography, streets, building outlines, and parks with the perimeter of the South Mall site superimposed over the then-existing neighborhood. Use of item is restricted due to fragility..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

89

Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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The Barge Canal Terminal Commission studied the question of providing publicly controlled terminal facilities for New York State Canals. This series consists of linen plans and drawings depicting Barge Canal terminal locations and terminal construction specifications. Plans depict drawings and specifications .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

90

Creator:

New York (State). Center for Laboratories and Research

 

 

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This series documents the Department of Environmental Conservation and its predecessor agencies' efforts to observe, record, and eradicate insect infestations, diseases, and other environmental conditions that threaten forest plant life. Included are staff field reports which document environmental .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

91

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New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

 

 

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Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

92

Creator:

New York (State). Office of General Services. Bureau of Land Management

 

 

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This series consists of upland application files documenting grant, easement, lease, permit, transfer of jurisdiction, and license transactions of state lands during the years 1799-1916 and 1954-2001. Other transactions documented in this series include state surplus real property; gold, silver, mineral, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of maps of highways and other cultural and natural features in New York State counties outside New York City. Maps record state and county highways; construction contract numbers for state highways; Public Service Commission railroad grade elimination project numbers; dates of abandonment .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

94

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau

 

 

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The series consists of records of transactions and legal business concerning land: deeds; mortgage bonds; state claims; sales and purchases; surveys and maps; tax receipts; foreclosures; correspondence; and other land records. There are also some records concerning the transfer of Indian lands to the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

95

Creator:

New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office

 

 

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This series from the Commissioners of the Land Office consist of colored maps of the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation. The volume is divided into sections depicting: farm lots; fine salt lots; Syracuse; Salina; fifteen acre leased lots at Salina; Geddes (now Syracuse); Village of Liverpool; and Reclaimed .........

 

Repository:  

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..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

97

Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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These maps of lands along the Erie Canal in the city of Rochester and the town of Greece were apparently prepared to settle damage claims filed by property owners whose land had been appropriated for canal enlargement. The maps typically show name of owner and boundaries of property; dimensions of spoil .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of roll survey maps for the enlargement of the Middle Division of the Erie Canal. Maps show red lines; blue lines; sectional divisions; old and new channels; profiles; existing structures; names of property owners; and adjacent roads, streets, and buildings. The series also includes .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

99

Creator:

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

 

 

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none

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

100

Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Office of Counsel

 

 

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These files contain proposals for central school districts that were approved or rejected by voters. Files include: applications including statistical, financial, and narrative information; memoranda from the Bureau of Rural Administrative Services summarizing local sentiment and expressing the bureau's .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives