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Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
The Conservation Commission was charged with creating fire districts and appointing forest rangers to oversee each district.
This map of the Adirondack Forest and Adjoining Territory indicates the location and extent of fires caused by locomotives.
Locomotives' coal burning engines were blamed in 1913 for causing sixty fires in the Adirondacks that destroyed over two hundred
acres.
Creator:
Title:
Railroad fire map
Quantity:
1.75 cubic feet
(1 map)
Inclusive Dates:
1913
Series Number:
B1774
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