File:Detail of power canal near Harmony Mill complex. - Cohoes Company Power Canal System, Level 2, North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY HAER NY,1-COHO,3A-5.tif

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Detail of power canal near Harmony Mill complex. - Cohoes Company Power Canal System, Level 2, North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY
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Boucher, Jack E.

Related names:

White, Canvass; Van Rensselaer, Stephen; Remsen, Peter; Wilkinson, David; White, Hugh; Worthen, William E; Cohoes Industrial Terminal Corporation; Simmons, Daniel; Cohoes Power and Light Company; New York Power and Light Company; National Park Service, sponsor; Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of History and Technology, sponsor; American Society of Civil Engineers, National Headquarters and Mohawk-Hudson Section, sponsor; New York State Historic Trust, sponsor; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Architecture, sponsor; Vogel, Robert M, project manager; Massey, James C, project manager; Christianson, Justine, transmitter; Marston, Christopher, project manager
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Detail of power canal near Harmony Mill complex. - Cohoes Company Power Canal System, Level 2, North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY
Depicted place New York; Albany County; Cohoes
Date 1969
date QS:P571,+1969-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER NY,1-COHO,3A-5
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • These records were prepared as part of the Mohawk-Hudson Area Survey, a pilot study for the Historic American Engineering Record which was established in 1969 under the aegis of the Historic American Buildings Survey.
  • 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.
  • Survey number: HAER NY-9
  • Building/structure dates: 1865 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78003151.

Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ny0026.photos.114472p
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Object location42° 46′ 27.01″ N, 73° 42′ 02.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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