New York State Canal Commissioners Canal System Survey Maps
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
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; basins; other hydraulic structures; bridges; mill races; buildings;
streams, ponds, and lakes; steep grades; and adjacent county, town, and property lines.
Creator:
Title:
Canal Commissioners canal system survey maps
Quantity:
21.5 cubic feet
31 volumes; 25 unbound maps; 4 microfilm rolls 35mm
Inclusive Dates:
1832-1843
Series Number:
A0848
Scope and Content Note
Bound folio volumes contain ink, wash and charcoal maps of the canal system in New York 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; basins; other hydraulic structures; bridges; mill races; buildings; streams, ponds, and lakes;
steep grades; and adjacent county, town, and property lines. The scale is not given.
Volumes include maps for: Erie Canal, 1834; Chemung Canal and Feeder, 1843; Crooked Lake Canal and Cayuga and Seneca Canal,
1834; Cayuga and Seneca Canal, n.d.; Chenango Canal, 1838; Seneca River Improvement, 1840; Champlain Canal, 1830; and Genesee
Valley Canal, 1841, 1850, n.d. There is also a single volume of maps and several unbound maps depicting portions of the canal
in Wayne County in accretion A0848-06.
These surveys were made pursuant to legislation of 1827 requiring a complete manuscript map and field notes of every canal
to be completed.
A0848-17: This accretion consists of the following volumes duplicated from the original series: "Erie Canal No. 7. Jordan
to Kirkville," (with pencil annotations of abandonments as late as 1985); "Erie Canal No. 8. Kirkville to Rome,"; "Cayuga
& Seneca Canals Survey," with attached certification and signatures by the Canal Board, pages 1-34, surveys the existing route
from Geneva to Montezuma; and "Oswego Canal in Onondaga County from Syracuse to Three River Point."
Alternate Formats Available
Microfilm is available for use at the New York State Archives or through interlibrary loan.
Photostatic copy of Volume 7 available in series B0379, Maps, Plans, Details and Drawings of Structures and Locations for
Work on the Erie, Genesee Valley, Chemung, and Oswego Canals, Volume 25.
Color slides of original maps of the Chenango Canal (vols 1 and 2) available in series B1520, Images of Chenango Canal Survey
Maps.
Items Online
Most maps in this series have been digitized and are available in State Archives Digital Collections.
New York State Archives Digital Collections
Canal Commissioners canal system survey maps, 1832-1843
Related Material
A1078 Engineer's Field Notes for State Canals, may have been used in the production of the maps in this series.
Custodial History
Accretion A0848-06 was transferred to the State Archives from the New York State Museum. These maps are a fragment of one
of the several original map sets created and distributed to members of the Canal Commission. Whereabouts of the other sets
is unknown.
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Detailed Description
Dates |
Contents |
Volume |
Roll |
Accretion: A0848-17 |
1834 |
Erie Canal // No. 7. // Jordan to Kirkville (Old Volume 7) - with pencil annotations of abandonments |
1 |
|
1834 |
Erie Canal // No. 8. // Kirkville to Rome (Old Volume 8) |
2 |
|
|
Cayuga & Seneca // Canals // Survey - Geneva to Montezuma |
3 |
|
circa 1834 |
Oswego Canal in Onondaga County From Syracuse to Three River Point |
4 |
|
Accretion: A0848-77 |
|
Erie Canal: Buffalo to Royalton |
1 |
1 |
|
Erie Canal: Royalton to Holley |
2 |
1 |
|
Erie Canal: Holley to Bushnell's Basin |
3 |
1 |
|
Erie Canal: Bushnell's Basin to Galen |
4 |
2 |
|
Erie Canal: Galen to Camillus |
5 |
2 |
|
Erie Canal: Camillus to Canastota |
6 |
2 |
|
Erie Canal: Canastota to Utica |
7 |
2 |
|
Erie Canal: Utica to Minden |
8 |
2 |
|
Erie Canal: Minden to Rotterdam |
9 |
3 |
|
Erie Canal: Rotterdam to Albany |
10 |
3 |
|
Erie and Champlain Canal: Feeders |
11 |
3 |
|
Champlain Canal: Whitehall to Fort Edward |
12 |
3 |
|
Champlain Canal: Fort Miller to Waterford |
13 |
3 |
|
Cayuga and Seneca Canal: County of Seneca |
15 |
3 |
|
Chenango Canal: Utica to Norwich |
16 |
3 |
|
Chenango Canal: Norwich to Binghamton (Includes Feeders and Reservoirs) |
17 |
4 |
|
Oneida River Improvement |
19 |
4 |
|
Seneca River Improvement: Baldwinsville to Mud Lock |
21 |
4 |
|
Genesee Valley Canal (Tracings) |
22 |
4 |
|
Genesee Valley Canal: Rochester to Geneseo |
23 |
4 |
|
Oswego Canal: General Estimate Book |
26 |
4 |
|
Oswego Canal: Syracuse to Oswego |
27 |
4 |