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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 2, 2014
Caption: Monument to the Pioneer Engineers next to the Lock Construction Marker
Additional Description: Erected August 16, 1975 In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the original locks which opened a connecting waterway between the Hudson River and the Great Lakes.
This completion of the Erie Canal was the opening of a door to the settling of the West.
Tribute must be paid to the engineers of that age who surveyed and designed this project with antiquated instruments and little engineering experience.
These men were the pioneers of American Engineering.

Ereected by
American Society of Civil Engineering
Buffalo Section

American Consulting Engineers Council
Western New York Chapter

National Society of Professional Engineers
Erie-Niagara Chapter
Submitted: September 7, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p285119
File Size: 3.626 Megabytes

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