Card index to canal records, ca. 1900-1959.
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New York (State). Dept. of Public Works.
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Although the Department of Public Works was created in 1923, the office of Deputy Superintendent did not exist until the appointment of Bertram D. Tollamy on January 16, 1945. The Deputy Superintendent was the head of the Department's executive staff as well its second ranking administrative official. As such these files reflect the departments responsibilities to plan, design, construct and maintain highways, bridges and grade separation structures, canals and waterways, and State owned buildin...
New York (State). Dept. of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance.
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New York State Thruway Authority
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CURRENT FUNCTIONS. This public corporation is responsible for constructing, maintaining, and operating a central highway route across New York State. The authority is empowered to issue bonds to finance its operation, acquire property rights along the highway route, enter into contracts to construct and maintain the road, and collect tolls and other fees for road use. ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY. The Thruway Authority was created as a public corporation in 1950 (Chapter 143)....
New York State Canal Corporation
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Although surveys were made when the reservoir system was created by the Department of Public Works to serve the state canal system (early 19th through 20th century), the boundary lines of state property were not clearly defined, especially in the Adirondack region. In the early 1990s the Thruway Authority was mandated to conduct a comprehensive survey to clearly establish the state's property lines. The maps in this series are the result of the research portion of that survey. The survey was com...
