This 5-mile summit of the
97- mile canal (1837-78)
extends N. of Hamilton to
Solsville, receiving water
from nearby reservoirs. — — Map (db m146823) HM
Welcome to the Chenango Canal Towpath Trail
The 5-mile trail on the summit follows the historic canal through beautiful woods & farm fields. The summit ends where an aqueduct carried boats across Oriskany Creek. A lock can still be . . . — — Map (db m304137) HM
Site of the home of first family
to settle in this valley
Col. Joshua Leland
wife, Waitstill, & 10 children.
Builder of grist mills, saw
mills and also innkeeper. — — Map (db m116794) HM
Welcome to the Chenango Canal Towpath Trail
Chenango Canal Association, Inc. Mission
The Chenango Canal Association (CCA) is dedicated to preserving, maintaining and improving the historic Chenango Canal and its towpath. Preservation . . . — — Map (db m286888) HM
Built ca. 1795. Land bought
1793 by John J. Morgan.
Summer home NY Gov. John
Adams Dix. 6 generations of
Camenga family resided here. — — Map (db m133050) HM
For decades, Phoebe Bradley
walked the roads of Madison
County. At her death in 1905,
she was thought to be the
oldest person in the county. — — Map (db m262121) HM
Site Of
Bruce Opera House 1888-1909
This Cultural Hub Seated
802 Patrons & Showed Movies
Projected By The Biograph,
A Canastota Invention
— — Map (db m109611) HM
The berm (heel) side of the canal contained businesses that provided to the needs of canallers and the manufacturing of goods to be shipped by the canal, while the towpath side provided services and cottage industries.
Research & Design by . . . — — Map (db m146997) HM
Towns sprouted along the length of the Erie Canal. Canal Street was Canastota's business district. Travelers stopped here for food and supplies or a bed for the night at a hotel or boarding house. Local farmers, merchants, and manufacturers shipped . . . — — Map (db m139500) HM
A canal basin is an expanse of waterway alongside or at the end of a canal, and wider than the canal, constructed to allow boats to moor or unload cargo without impeding the progress of other traffic, and to allow room for turning.
Research . . . — — Map (db m146999) HM
Moving east in the mural are the following:
As settlement flourished, the Farr Hardware and the Canastota Bee-Journal buildings marked the beginning of S.Peterboro Street as a hub of mercantile activity.
The Peterboro Street . . . — — Map (db m146995) HM
A lift bridge was designed to lift up horizontally out of the way of canal boat traffic.
Canastota's lift bridge was constructed because the existing high bridge had an inconvenient rise to the Peterboro Street level crossing the canal. . . . — — Map (db m146998) HM
Founded by pioneers from CT on the theology of J. Edwards. Meeting house built 1824. Early leaders: R. Bushnell, E.S. Cadwell, & P. Cadwell — — Map (db m268484) HM
Its immediate success on opening from Albany to Buffalo in 1825 soon led to calls to enlarge the canal. From 1836 to 1862 the canal was deepened from 4 feet to 7 feet, with bigger locks and aqueducts, and canal boats grew threefold in capacity from . . . — — Map (db m139502) HM
Reuben Perkins
1761-1855
Capt. Perkins, a Revolutionary War veteran, moved to the area from Connecticut in 1807. He obtained a state patent in 1810 to buy 329 2/10 acres of the Canastota Reserve from the Oneida Indians for $7.50 an acre. . . . — — Map (db m149190) HM
1908 - Centennial - 2008
From New York to Paris.
Racers arrived in Canastota Feb. 14th staying overnight.
The U.S. team won the race. — — Map (db m58367) HM
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
circa 1870 — — Map (db m269777) HM
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
circa 1880 — — Map (db m269779) HM
Industrial Growth (marker front panel)
The Erie Canal encouraged settlers to establish farms and helped small upstate towns become economically viable. Plants and mills built near the canal to process farm produce diversified to meet . . . — — Map (db m139499) HM
1861-1865
Lenox and Canastota's
Tribute to Their Heroes.
Erected A.D. 1907
(dates on monument)
1776-1783
1812-1815
1846-1848
1898 — — Map (db m149176) WM
300 feet north of here, the
Lenox Anti-Slavery Society
was organized at the former
First Presbyterian Church
on December 7, 1836 — — Map (db m139567) HM
National convention held
at site nearby in Sept. 1852.
Speeches made by abolitionists
Gerrit Smith, Jermain Loguen
and Frederick Douglass. — — Map (db m262119) HM
In the late 19th and early 20th century
Italian families immigrated here to
become tenant farmers and land owners.
Canastota was often referred to as the
Onion Capital of the World. — — Map (db m262125) HM
Nichols Pond Park, a Madison County park, consists of 45 acres of land. The park is open to the public year round from dawn to dusk, and provides opportunities for hiking, bird watching and other forms of outdoor recreation.
The pond located at . . . — — Map (db m144351) HM
The area on which you are standing was an Oneida Indian village active as early as the mid to late 1400's. Directly in front of you is an area that was excavated in the 1950's. The excavation revealed evidence of a section of palisade wall . . . — — Map (db m144350) HM
Canal and street traffic came into conflict where Peterboro Street crossed the Erie Canal in Canastota's busy commercial district. Engineers fixed the problem with a hydraulic lift bridge. Raised, it let boats through and still carried foot traffic. . . . — — Map (db m139501) HM
Reuben Perkins, born on November 5th, 1763, came from a family of the earliest settlers of New England. Perkins was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and had served in the battles at Plattsburg, Saratoga, and Stony Point. For his service he . . . — — Map (db m139591) HM
”One hundred four of us emptied right out on brink of the canal.”
On October 21, 1835, about 600 men, black and white, gathered at the 2nd Presbyterian Church on Bleeker Street in Utica. They came from every corner of New York, intent on . . . — — Map (db m269784) HM
This Property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
circa 1877 — — Map (db m269747) HM
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
circa 1885 — — Map (db m269778) HM
Construction of the Erie Canal was hailed as the greatest engineering accomplishment to that time. Under the leadership of Governor De Witt Clinton, construction began July 4, 1817. With little technical knowledge, thousands of workers surveyed, . . . — — Map (db m65012) HM
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
circa 1875 — — Map (db m269746) HM
In the early 1880s, David S. Watson saw farm wagons with slat bottoms being used in grading the West Shore Railroad, and he noted the time lost in unloading the stone. Then in 1887, in Stratford, N.Y., came the idea that resulted in the production . . . — — Map (db m262120) HM
These bricks name individuals connected
to our community who served in the
United States Military
We pay tribute to them and all veterans
who risked their lives to preserve
and protect our freedom.
It is here that we remember and . . . — — Map (db m304161) WM
Joseph Atwell, 1754-1834,
Revolutionary soldier
settled here 1792. Overseer
of Pompey Highways 1794
Owned lot in military tract — — Map (db m143882) HM
Oneida Indians of the Iroquois Confederacy lived here and named the lake O-wah-ge-ha-ga "where the yellow perch swim". Tuscaroras coming from North Carolina to make the sixth nation of the League settled to the eastward. A large tract was reserved . . . — — Map (db m63344) HM
This tablet is a memorial to the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in the town of Cazenovia and to its
Veterans of all wars
of the United States
Three Townships Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Cazenovia
John Allen
Joseph Atwell . . . — — Map (db m246861) WM
Presented to the Village of Cazenovia by Cazenovia Post No. 66 American Legion in commemoration of those who served from this community in the wars of the United States — — Map (db m246830) WM
John Lincklaen began construction
of Lorenzo in the spring of 1807.
He and his wife, Helen Ledyard
Lincklaen, occupied the Federal
style mansion on October 8, 1808. — — Map (db m281867) HM
Lucy Dutton, Lived ca. 1795
near Cazenovia Lake. Jilted
by man who wed her sister.
Went mad and wandered
Madison County for 30 years — — Map (db m223704) HM
Planted during the 1850's by
Ledyard Lincklaen as a double
hedge to divide the garden from
the surrounding fields. It became
a favorite part of the garden in
later years — — Map (db m282102) HM
Dorothy Riester House and Studio has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m238405) HM
This building erected for Court House 1810. Courts held 1812-17. Sold to Methodists 1818. Conference Seminary established 1824. — — Map (db m246723) HM
Erected in 1852, it is one of several
watering troughs that was built
along the roadsides of Cazenovia
by the family as a public service.
It was moved to the garden in
1924, by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild,
when highway improvements
threatened . . . — — Map (db m281961) HM
Lorenzo, built by Holland Land Company agent Col.
John Lincklaen in 1807, was the seat of the Lincklaen/ Ledyard family for 160 years. Land agent and developer John Lincklaen was typical of the early entrepreneurs who were instrumental in the . . . — — Map (db m281952) HM
Headquarters of the Madison County militia brigade commanded by General Jonathan Forman. Units from Cazenovia served on the frontier during the War of 1812. The area was also used by traveling outdoor shows. — — Map (db m152102) HM
Arrived with John Lincklaen in 1793. Purchased this land from Holland Land Company in 1812. Farmed and operated a tavern here. Died 1844. — — Map (db m283952) HM
Site of
Belmont Powder Mill
Est. 1888 by J.D. Griswold
In Oct. 1898 an explosion
heard for 50 miles ended
the mill operation forever
— — Map (db m268400) HM
The New York State Antislavery Society held its inaugural meeting here October 22, 1835. Abolitionists from across New York had met the day before at the Bleecker Street Presbyterian Church in Utica to form a state antislavery society. When unruly . . . — — Map (db m269557) HM
Served as turnpike tavern for almost 60 yrs. Built and opened by Cyrene Bartholomew in 1815. Closed in 1872 when the Chenango R.R. opened and passed it by. — — Map (db m87439) HM
The Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention was held in Grace Wilson's orchard (this site) on August 21-22, 1850. It was attended by such notables as Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, and Theodosia Gilbert. — — Map (db m246862) HM
This site was an apple orchard when, on August 22, 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law Convention was held here.
CAZENOVIA AND SLAVERY
The orchard was owned by Grace Wilson, who had earlier maintained a school on the property, and was a . . . — — Map (db m246824) HM
In the late 1800s the boatyard across from you was full of boats, shops, people, horses and mules. The heart of the complex was the three-bay dry dock where canal boats were repaired. New boats were built on the ground next to the dry docks. . . . — — Map (db m144327) HM
The canal increased industry productivity. It quickly brought raw materials and workers to factories, and made shipping faster and cheaper than transporting over land. Some structures of the canal were even specially designed for multiple uses to . . . — — Map (db m144326) HM
In this vicinity once stood
a one bay drydock and store
house in operation by 1824,
at the convergence of the
Chittenango and Erie Canals — — Map (db m145721) HM
When a canal boat needed repairs, the captain went to the nearest dry dock. A dry dock was a basin or bay that could be flooded to get a boat in, and then drained so that the boat could be repaired. Along the canal, at least 44 different dry docks . . . — — Map (db m144329) HM
The high ground from Syracuse to Rome, known as the Rome Summit Level, was the first completed section of the canal. Water does not naturally fill this section because of its elevation, but the canal needed to be full to be open. Construction of . . . — — Map (db m144328) HM
This was the main industrial area of the village. To the left was a wood-frame grist mill (ca 1820) that ground grain and made feed for local farmers. Fire destroyed the mill in 1944.
In front of you was a three story stone mill (ca 1820) that . . . — — Map (db m147201) HM
The lamplighter used this cart to maintain the
village streetlamps. He would use a long pole to
light the lamps each evening and put them out
each morning. During the day he would use the
cart to carry fuel and materials to maintain . . . — — Map (db m139569) HM
Company Incorporated 1818.
Canal In Use By 1824. Site
Of Turn-Around Basin For
Canal Boat Transportation
North To The Grand Old Erie
— — Map (db m109559) HM
1749-1827, Buried here. First pastor of local Seventh Day Baptist Church. Rev. War veteran served with Dutchess County militia. — — Map (db m283978) HM
This bell was salvaged during the dismantling of the Union Meeting House (Presbyterian Church) in 1883.
It was mounted at the Union Hall on December 11, 1884 and used as a fire bell until the Union Hall was destroyed by fire on December 31, . . . — — Map (db m116797) HM
Great temperance orater, born here March 17, 1852. Right Worthy Grand Templar of the World-wide Order of Good Templars, 1884-1887 — — Map (db m223415) HM
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