Scope and Content Note
A bound 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. Maps begin at Fort Plain and end at Elmira; no scale is given. The survey was made and the maps drawn under direction of the Canal Commissioners in accordance with legislation of 1830.
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