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Roads -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 4 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).

John Greig papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1550
Abstract

Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York.

Dates: 1794-1870.

Saranac River Plank Road Co. records

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924065452421]
Identifier: 506
Scope and content

Printed and manuscript volume of the laws pertaining to plank roads and toll roads near Saranac, New York.

Dates: 1778-1888.

Schenectady and Saratoga Plank Road Company vs. Thatcher legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246419]
Identifier: 1136m
Scope and content

Printed legal documents from the case as it came before the Court of Appeals, including points of the respondent and appellant.

Dates: 1852.