Syracuse:
Erie Canal
Route from New York to Buffalo
Weight Lock, Erie Canal,
Syracuse, N.Y.
The Canal Museum, Weighlock
Building, Erie Blvd. E. Syracuse. The Weighlock Building is the last
administrative structure standing which was used on nineteenth century New York
State Canals. Here boats were
weighed and the toll on their cargo determined.
To-day it houses the Canal Museum.
Weighlock Building
Junction of the Oswego and
Erie Canals
Syracuse, N.Y., Weighlock
Building was the last canal building; it is now a canal museum on Erie Blvd.
Junction of the Erie and
Oswego Canals, Syracuse, N.Y.
On the Erie Canal, Passing
through Syracuse, N.Y.
Junction of Erie and Oswego
Canals, Syracuse, N.Y.
Erie Canal in Syracuse, N.Y.
Erie Canal in Syracuse, N.Y.
Erie Canal in Syracuse, N.Y.
Erie Canal, Syracuse, N.Y.
Syracuse, N.Y., Clinton Square
and the Erie Canal
View of the Broken Culvert
under the Erie Canal. Six miles of
water, nine feet in depth and sixty feet in width passed through the aperture
within two hours at Syracuse, N.Y. July 30, 1907
Washout of the Erie Canal at
Syracuse, N.Y., July 30, 1907
Washout of the Erie Canal at
Syracuse, N.Y., July 30, 1907
Break in the Erie Canal at
Amos’s Mill, Syracuse, N.Y., July 30, 1907
Where the bottom fell out of
the Erie Canal into Onondaga Creek, July 30, 1907
Erie Canal and Salt Covers.
The Erie Canal within the city limits is about five miles long, and in it are 3
locks, with a stop-gate just east of the city for protection from floods.
There are about 35,000 salt covers in Syracuse, averaging about 16 feet Square
and from 6 to 8 inches deep. The
brine is pumped from the earth and sold by the state to the manufacturers.
About 3,000,000 bushels of salt are produced annually.
The
Weigh Lock*
Syracuse,
N.Y., The Erie Canal Office*
Canal
Boats passing under Salina Street Bridge, Syracuse, N.Y.*
Erie
Canal and Syracuse Savings Bank, Syracuse, N.Y.*
Flood
of 1907*
Debris
from flood of 1907*
Culvert,
built in 1840 seperating Erie Canal from Onondaga Creek, gave way, July 30,
1907*
Break
in Erie Canal letting water into Onondaga Crek, July 30, 1907. Five boats
were destroyed.*
Clearing
away the debris from the Erie Canal, effect of the Washout, July 30, 1907*
Syracuse,
N.Y. Erie Canal West, Looking East*
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