Research

Scope and Content Note

Colored plans and maps depict proposed improvements along the Hudson and Champlain Canal. The maps and plans were made in 1866 and have been bound together in one volume. The plans depict bridges; arch culverts; waste weirs; locks; and dams. The volume also contains a plan giving river profiles of the Hudson River from Troy to Fort Edward and of the Champlain Canal from Troy to Whitehall. The maps consist of five sheets which depict lot sites, dams, locks, property owners and streets of towns and cities bordering the canal. "Geddes Maps" (found in Series A0851) depict other New York State canals.