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Cohoes Company Power Canal System, Level 2, North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY
LocationNorth Mohawk Street,
Cohoes, NY
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER NY-9
Building/structure dates:
1865 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1927 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1950 subsequent work
Significance: The canals of the Cohoes Company comprised a typical, major power canal system, providing the power source for the city's mills and factories by supplying water for the water wheels and later for the turbines that drove the machinery in the mills.
Subjects
Canals
Related Names
White, Canvass
Van Rensselaer, Stephen
Remsen, Peter
Wilkinson, David
White, Hugh
Worthen, William E.
Pollak, Richard J., Historian
Vogel, Robert M., Historian
Rezneck, Samuel, Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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