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Title

Account of monies paid to contractors and others for construction, repair, and enlargement of the Black River, Chenango, and Genesee canals

Series Number

B1881

Summary

This series consists of an account of monies paid for construction, repair, and enlargement of the Black River, Chenango, and Genesee canals. Each account contains name of contractor; contract number; general location of work; general description of work; date and payment amount.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

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Title

Index to damages awarded by the Canal Appraisers for the enlargement of the Erie Canal and for construction of other canals

Series Number

B2027

Summary

This series consists of an index to damages awarded by the Canal Appraisers for the enlargement of the Erie Canal and for the construction of other canals, particularly the Chemung and Chenango Canals. Data includes claimant name; county where claimant's property was located; filing number; date; volume and page reference; amount of the award and when paid.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Canal Appraisers

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Title

Canal engineer's field notes for state canals

Series Number

A1078

Summary

This series consists of field notes from surveys made for the Canal Commissioners (Revised Statutes 1827), which directed that the Commissioners have maps and field notes made for all canals constructed by the state. Field notes in this series were submitted by the Canal Commissioners to the Canal Board for approval, and upon approval were certified by the commissioners and filed in the Comptroller's Office. The Erie, Chenango, Chemung, Crooked Lake, Cayuga and Seneca, and Oswego canals are covered.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Accounts of Canal Commissioners for expenditures on branch canals

Series Number

A1087

Summary

Included are accounts for the following canals: Oswego, Genesee Valley, Black River, Chenango, Cayuga and Seneca, Chemung and Crooked Lake, as well as the Oneida River Improvement. Each entry provides name of payee; after date; location or type of work performed; and amount due.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Index to Region 2 field books

Series Number

B2075

Summary

This series indexes field books held in the Canal Corporation Region 2 Office in Syracuse, New York. Field books referenced in the index document the construction and maintenance of the Chenango Canal, Black River Canal, the Northern and Southern Reservoirs and Oneida Lake portions of the Barge Canal.

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Title

Financial and administrative records of canals

Series Number

A0819

Summary

These records document the operation of canals, including: rough tallies of cargo loaded on canal boat "Sovereign" at various ports; auditor's warrants for payments from Canal Fund through the Manhattan Company; and section contracts for enlargement of the Cayuga and Seneca canal, 1859; inventory of furniture in possession of collector of canal tolls at Lockport, 1866; and statements of publication of notices by Commissioners of the Canal fund.

Creator

• New York (State). Canal Commissioners

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Title

Card file index to Region 2 maps

Series Number

B2074

Summary

This series indexes maps once maintained by the Region 2 Waterways Maintenance Office of the Department of Public Works. Maps and plans indexed included the first Erie Canal enlargement, the 1895 Improvement and the Erie Barge Canal, the Black River Canal, the Chenango Canal, the Northern and Southern Reservoirs, Oneida Lake, and the Old and New Oneida Lake Canals. Also included indexed is work on the Utica State Hospital and Marcy State Hospital.

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Title

Canal Fund account book

Series Number

A1085

Summary

This volume is a ledger accounts of Commissioners of the Canal Fund for Erie and Champlain Canal Fund and stock, and for stock of the Cayuga and Seneca, Crooked Lake, Chenango, Oswego, and Black River canals. There are also accounts with the Canal Commissioners, Superintendents of Repairs, and banks in New York City, Albany, and elsewhere in which tolls and canal loans premiums were deposited.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Measurements, calculations, and estimates for construction of Chenango Canal

Series Number

A1091

Summary

This series consists of 3 volumes of measurements, calculations, and estimates for construction of the Chenango Canal. For each survey station (approximately three chains apart), there are calculations of cubic footage of excavation, embankment (towpath, berme, etc.), and lining, with comments and totals. For each section of the canal there is an abstract of the account for that section, listing work done, extra material used, pay rate, total amount due, date, and contractor's name.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Various records filed with the Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor

Series Number

B0246

Summary

This series consists of records filed with the Office of State Engineer and Surveyor's Office including property assessments; contractors' bids; inventories of records lent to state commissions; a bridge company annual report; a list of companies navigating state lakes and rivers; one bill; bridge company schedules; agreements; correspondence; newspaper clippings and notices of public sales of forfeited lands.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Title

Map and plan books of the location and construction of the state's canal system

Series Number

B0292

Summary

These volumes address the enlargement of the Erie and Champlain canals; building of the Oswego, Cayuga and Seneca, Chenango, Black River, and Genesee Valley canals; and appropriation of lands for canal use. They contain drawings, maps, diagrams, tracings, and profiles of much of the State's canal system and its related structures and provide detailed information concerning the location, dimensions, specification, and construction of related canal structures.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Title

Survey maps and plans for projected canal alterations

Series Number

A0800

Summary

The maps in this series appear to have been created by the Office of Surveyor General in compliance with legislation of 1827 requiring a complete map and field notes. Most of the maps depict specific sections of the Erie Canal and show locks; bridges; railroad bridges across canals; locations of canal alterations and improvements; aqueducts; and reservoirs and feeders. The series also includes maps relating to the Chemung, Chenango, Sodus, Oneida Lake, Champlain, and Cayuga and Seneca canals.

Creator

• New York (State). Canal Commissioners

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Title

Images of Chenango Canal survey maps

Series Number

B1520

Summary

This series consists of color slides of survey maps of the Chenango Canal. Series A0848, Canal System Survey Maps, includes the original maps for the Chenango Canal from which these slides were made.

Creator

• Chenango (Town : N.Y.)

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Title

Canal damage awards by Canal Appraisers, Board of Claims, and Court of Claims

Series Number

B0602

Summary

This series consists of certified copies of awards by the Canal Appraisers (through 1883) and by the Board of Claims (1883-1897), and of judgments by the Court of Claims (1897-1953). These awards were made for damages to lands adjacent to state canals. Many such damages were sustained by private persons when their lands were appropriated temporarily or permanently for repairs or enlargement of the Erie Canal, for the so-called $9,000,000 improvement at the turn of the century, and for construction of the Barge Canal system.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

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Title

Canal Commissioners canal system survey maps

Series Number

A0848

Summary

These survey maps of the canal system in New York State fulfilled a law requiring a complete map and field notes of every canal in the state. The maps show: survey stations for measuring length of the canal; courses and distances (linked by red lines); canal right-of-way (blue line); locks; aqueducts; basins; other hydraulic structures; bridges; mill races; buildings; streams, ponds, and lakes; steep grades; and adjacent county, town, and property lines.

Creator

• New York (State). Canal Commissioners

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Title

Releases upon commutation for farm bridges over canals, with related correspondence and documents

Series Number

A1380

Summary

Canal commissioners were required to construct and maintain road and street bridges over the enlarged Erie Canal and to construct farm bridges to accommodate landowners. This series consists of releases, vouchers, receipts, title searches, parcel maps, and resolutions authorizing commutations to claimants and owners for rights to bridges built over the Erie and other branch canals. Information includes name and residence of landowner; parcel description; sum paid by the state; and landowner signature.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

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Title

Final estimates and accounts

Series Number

B0377

Summary

This series contains final estimates, accounts, and measurements for a variety of canal and canal related structures including locks, roads, shores, bridges, sluices, excavations, culverts, linings, puddlings, dams, and embankments. Volumes contain detailed, multi-colored drawings and sketches, monochrome photographs, blueprints, and linen maps. Records pertain to the Middle Division of the Enlarged Erie Canal, Black River Canal, Chenango Canal, Chenango Canal Extension, and Oneida Lake Canal.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Title

Maps, drawings, and blueprints related to state waterways and canals

Series Number

10448

Summary

This series contains maps, profiles, tracings, sketches, plans, drawings, blueprints, and a small quantity of related charts and correspondence relating to the State's canals, feeders, and/or various waterways. Included are profiles of canals and rivers; cross sections of actual and proposed canal and railroad lines; and canal section sketches of the location of canals and drainage patterns.

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