”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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
