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New York and Erie Railroad Company

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Central New York transportation documents and flour trade correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938396]
Identifier: 65
Scope and content Correspondence (chiefly business and financial dealings) concerning transportation in central New York State, including Ithaca, Syracuse, Owego, Elmira, and Albany. Topics include the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road, the New York and Erie Railroad, land purchases, steamboats to Ithaca and Owego, a mill owned by Francis A. Bloodgood, the Chemung Canal, Ithaca canals and streams, a proposed turnpike road from the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira, and public opinion and politics in Ithaca. Also...
Dates: 1678-1683 and 1823-1934,-1823-1866 (bulk).

Constant Cook and Company records

 Collection — Manuscript box 9 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241212]
Identifier: 1373
Scope and content

Articles of agreement between Constant Cook, John Arnot, Charles Cook, and James S. Stranahan, and the New York and Erie Railroad Company concerning construction of a railway from Binghamton to Elmira. Also, a contract between the company and the railroad regarding construction of a railroad from Binghamton to Corning, including reference to Thompson Skinner Brown, John Magee, and John H. Chedell. Collection includes an Erie Railway broadside.

Dates: 1848-1874.

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Broadsides (notices) 1
Buses -- New York (State) 1
Canals -- New York (State) 1
Contracts. 1
Finger Lakes Region (N.Y.) 1