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"The museum is a replica of the original Sims’ Canal Store which was located on the Canal approximately 2 miles east of its present location. The original site was closer to Gere Lock and Belle Isle. There it took advantage of the fact that the boats had to stop there before entering the lock and/or stopping at Belle Isle." |
You can take a
45-minute narrated ride on the canal that includes traversing the
1842 Nine-Mile Creek Aqueduct. It is the only boat ride that is available on the Enlarged Erie Canal.
I presume this is the tour boat.
"The Steam Engine Exhibit at the Camillus Erie Canal Park, is the result of the joint efforts of the Camillus Canal Society, the Town of Camillus, and the City of Syracuse to save and preserve the last of the many steam engines which once powered the manufacturing might of Central New York. With the announcement in 1998 of the plans to demolish the former L.C. Smith Typewriter Company plant on Washington Street in Syracuse, the community was poised to lose an icon of its manufacturing past. The building still housed the Corliss steam engine that had generated power for the Company beginning in 1913. The City of Syracuse was willing to give the engine to a museum or group for preservation, but had not been successful in finding a recipient. At the critical moment when most such artifacts are lost forever, the Camillus Canal Society proposed a plan to remove the engine and exhibit it at the Camillus Erie Canal Town Park. The City of Syracuse made an inter-municipal gift of the engine to the Town of Camillus, and the volunteers of the Camillus Canal Society went to work to create a new building in which to house and restore the engine." [
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Five photos that do a "walk" around the Corliss steam engine.
They also have some artifacts outside of the building.
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