New York State Canal Board State Engineer and Surveyor's Maps and Plans for the Hudson and Champlain Improvement Survey

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Overview of the Records

Repository
New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
These maps and plans show proposed improvements along the Hudson and Champlain Canal. They depict bridges; culverts; waste weirs; locks; dams; waterway profiles; property owners; lot sites; and streets of towns and cities bordering the canal.
Title
State Engineer and Surveyor's maps and plans for the Hudson and Champlain Improvement survey
Quantity
1 volume(s)
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
A0853
Creator
Administrative History

A law of 1866 appropriated $7,000 for the State Engineer and Surveyor to do the surveys and to report to the Canal Board by 1867 (January 1st).

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.

Series A0851, "Geddes Maps," depict other New York canals.

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