“For the first time in 60 years there is not a canal boat between Montezuma and Syracuse. In this section the improved Erie Canal opened for navigation in 1859. The
When the state changed the route of the Erie Canal in the early 1900s, it left behind 100 years of canal “ruins” in the form of bridges, dams, feeders, locks,
Way back in 2019, I wrote about the Schasel postcard collection that had been donated to the Lock 52 Historical Society. It is a wonderful collection of over 100 postcards
My September column about contamination of the village water in the late 1800s and early 1900s received some interesting responses. One of them was, “Now I know why my grandfather
The headline in Auburn’s Advertiser-Journal of Sept. 9, 1915, might have been shocking, but it was not unexpected: “Water Supply of Port Byron Grossly Contaminated, State Report Says, Blaming Auburn.”