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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: The Burden Water Wheel
Additional Description: The Burden Water Wheel, the “Niagara of Water Wheels” and the most powerful vertical water wheel in history, was designed and constructed by Burden in 1851. The wheel was sixty-two feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in breadth, and supplied by a small stream, the Wynantskill Creek. It was abandoned in the 1890s. Note the man in the photo, standing in front of the wheel for scale.
Submitted: July 6, 2016, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p355785
File Size: 6.538 Megabytes

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