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Administrative correspondence and background history on the Oak Orchard Feeder


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New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
This series consists of correspondence requesting information about the Oak Orchard Feeder at Medina. Most letters are to offices of the Western Division engineer, who had responsibility for its administration and maintenance. Subjects include location of contracts, deeds, and other records; power and ownership rights along Oak Orchard Creek; easements; possible improvements including hydraulic development of streams entering into or issuing from the canal. Also included is a history of the "Tonawanda and Oak Orchard Creek Feeder and Tonawanda Swamp".
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Administrative correspondence and background history on the Oak Orchard Feeder
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0.5 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1906-1929
Series Number:
A4414

Scope and Content Note

The series consists of correspondence relating to requests for information about various aspects of the Oak Orchard Feeder at Medina, New York. The letters are primarily directed to offices of the engineer of the Western Division, within whose district the feeder was located, and who had responsibility for its administration and maintenance.

Records pertain to: location of contracts, deeds, or other records relating to the feeder; power rights and ownership rights along Oak Orchard Creek with regard to easements; possible improvements to the feeder, including hydraulic development of streams entering into or issuing from the canal; and a typescript history of the "Tonawanda and Oak Orchard Creek Feeder and Tonawanda Swamp" prepared in connection with a report on claim for damages in 1916 (see series A1469, Historical Abstracts concerning Lands of the Western Division, Erie Canal, for a copy of this history).

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