Images of the Erie Canal between Little Falls and Schenectady

Images of the Erie Canal in the St. Johnsville area

Photograph of Lock 33, St. Johnsville, while still in use (late 1890s?). Used courtesy of Terry Potoczny.

For other historical pictures of the remains of Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 33, as well as pictures of the remains of Lock 33 today,
see the Erie Canal Lock 33 web site.

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Images of the Erie Canal in Fort Plain

"View of Prism in Village of Fort Plain [canal repairs]" -- from: Annual report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1897 (Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1898)	"Stone Bridge, Fort Plain, Montgomery County, N.Y." (Fort Plain aqueduct) -- from the Historic American Buildings Survey, Thos. T. Waterman, Photographer. [after 1933] -- HABS NY,29-FORPL,1-1. The portion of the aqueduct being used as a bridge was the towpath; the canal prism was a wooden trunk supported by the stone "walls" seen in the creek bed.
"Erie Canal Lock, Fort Plain, N.Y." (G R Chriss & Co, Fort Plain, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1907.	"Lock no. 32, Erie Canal, Fort Plain, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approx. 1910?
"Erie Canal, Fort Plain, N.Y." (No. E 2122, Diefendorf & Waters, Fort Plain, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 18, 1915.

The following four images were contributed to The Towpath Times web site by Mr. Tom A. Doganieri, and are used courtesy of Cliff Williams and Terry Doganieri. (The last two are full size.)
Lock 32, Fort Plain -- A late 1800s photo looking east -- the Doganieri property is to the left, adjacent to the canal locks.	Fort Plain -- An 1880 photo looking northeast. Trees block the view of Lock 32.
Lock 32, Fort Plain -- looking toward the northwest -- about 1900.	Looking into Lock 32, with the Lock Grocery/Doganieri House at the right.

For pictures of the remains of Lock 32 today, see the Traces section.

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Images of the Erie Canal in the Fort Hunter/Tribes Hill area

"Barge Canal Contract No. 17" [Lock No. 12 and dam at Tribes Hill] -- from: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1911 (Albany : Argus Co., printers, 1912) -- facing p. 58.	"Fort Hunter, N.Y., The Schoharie Aqueduct" (No. 3681, Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, ME.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 13, 1916.
Left: "Brown's store at Lock 30. Improved canal" -- p.12 ; Right: "Boat passing through Lock 30" -- p.13 -- both from: Fort Hunter - "Canal-Town, U.S.A." / by David H. Veeder. (Fort Hunter, N.Y. : Fort Hunter Canal Society ; printed by The Noteworthy Co., Amsterdam, N.Y., c1968. -- Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 30 was a lift-lock on the Enlarged Erie Canal, built in 1841. It was located just east of the Schoharie Creek Aqueduct. Owing to its condition and its location in the middle of the village of Fort Hunter, it was pulled down in 1955, and no trace of it remains today.

Left: "The Dam, Fort Hunter, N.Y." -- p. 6 (Schoharie dam formed the still water pool used for the original crossing of the creek. After the aqueduct was put in use in 1841, the pool continued to supply water to the old canal, which then served as a feeder to the improved canal.) Middle: "Schoharie Creek aqueduct. Early 1900's"-- p. 11 Right: "Towing boat across Schoharie Creek Aqueduct" -- p. 12 -- all from: Fort Hunter - "Canal-Town, U.S.A." / by David H. Veeder. (Fort Hunter, N.Y. : Fort Hunter Canal Society ; printed by The Noteworthy Co., Amsterdam, N.Y., c1968).

For more images of the Schoharie Creek Aqueduct, the Old Erie 'Empire' Lock No. 20, Enlarged Erie 'Empire' Lock No. 29, 'Yankee Hill' Lock No. 28, and the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Park, go to the Schoharie Crossing page.

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Images of the Erie Canal in the Amsterdam area

"Erie Canal looking East, Amsterdam, N.Y." (no publisher given) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 27, 1906.	"On the Tow Path, Erie Canal and Mohawk River - Amsterdam in distance" (No. 3670, The Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, Me.) -- Postcard ; postmarked May 26, 1913.
"Lock No. 11, Barge Canal, Amsterdam, N.Y." (R-26429 -- [Diamond] W) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 3, 1912.
"Barge Canal, Lock 11, Amsterdam, N.Y." (218935 -- The Valentine-Souvenir Co., New York) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 26, 1915? (year unclear).	"Interior Lock No. 11, Amsterdam, N.Y." (A-80310, Chas. W. Hughes, Mechanicville, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; 1920s?

Lock Eleven on the Erie Canal at Amsterdam, New York / John Collier, photographer -- Oct. 1941 Images from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.)
"Many of the Erie Canal barges are still built of wood." -- The barge Edward Hedger in Lock Eleven near Amsterdam.	"Barge in Lock Eleven, Erie Canal, near Amsterdam, New York."	"Barges passing through Lock Eleven, Erie Canal, New York."

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Images of the Erie Canal in the Scotia area

"Barge Canal, Contract No. 8-A: Lock no. 8 and Dam no. 4, at Scotia, N.Y." -- from Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1915 (Albany : J. B. Lyon Co, printers, 1916) -- facing p. 88.	"Lock and movable dam at Scotia" -- from: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916 (Albany : J.B. Lyon Co., 1917) -- facing p. 12.
"Barge Canal, Contracts Nos. 8-A and 115: Lock and movable dam at Scotia" -- from: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916 (Albany : J.B. Lyon Co., 1917) -- facing p. 64.	"Movable dam of bridge type, beside a lock, at Scotia, on the Mohawk river" -- from: History of the Barge Canal of New York State / by Noble E. Whitford; supplement to the Annual report of the State Engineer and Surveyor for the year ended June 30, 1921 (Albany : J.B. Lyon Co., printers, 1922) -- opposite p. 148.
"Barge Canal, Contract No. 20-D: A view of Mohawk River canalization" -- from: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916 (Albany : J.B. Lyon Co., 1917) -- facing p. 72.

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Images of the Erie Canal in Rotterdam

"Lock on the old Erie Canal not in use, New York" / John Collier, photographer -- Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Oct. 1941

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