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| Schenectady County Historical Society posted Schenectady's section of the Erie Canal closed in 1917. Over the next 8 years, the canal was filled and Erie Boulevard was constructed. The first section of the new road opened to traffic in spring of 1924, but the final section wasn't opened until 1926. This photo from the Larry Hart Collection shows the dry canal bed, described in the papers as "a wilderness of weeds containing garbage, dead animals, and black stagnant water." Check out more before and after photos of the transition from Erie Canal to Erie Boulevard on the Grems-Doolittle Library blog: https://gremsdoolittlelibrary.blogspot.com/.../from-erie... Schenectady County Historical Society: For those of you wondering about the smell of the canal, we have a blog post about that too! https://gremsdoolittlelibrary.blogspot.com/.../odors-of... Adam Brooks: And to think that exact same train bridge is still there today 106 years later (from this photo). Also many don’t/ didn’t know that Erie Blvd was actually part of the Erie Canal before it was turned into a road. Take a gander at Ge power systems over the years, pretty awesome photos from the early 1900s to today. |
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| DailyGazette (paycount 3) via Dennis DeBruler General Electric commuters walk along the Erie Canal in downtown Schenectady in the early 1900s in this photo from the collection of the Efner History Center. "General Electric’s history in Schenectady dates back to 1886 when inventor Thomas Edison set up the Edison Machine Works here." |
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| Cori Willson posted Erie Canal in Schenectady 1894 This is a pretty amazing photograph, the view is looking west down the towpath on the Erie Canal, from the Liberty Street bridge towards the State Street bridge in Schenectady. What really makes the photo so special though is that it was captured by the eye of a genius. *Photograph by GE engineer Charles Steinmetz! |
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| 1898 Schenectady Quad @ 62,500 |
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| 1930 Schenectady Quad @ 62,500 |
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| 1954 Schenectady Quad @ 62,500 |
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| blog_erie_canal, 1 of many photos on this webpage "In this photo, you can see the drained canal -- from State Street to the Liberty Street bridge -- partially filled in in preparation for the construction of Erie Boulevard. Image from Grems-Doolittle Library Photograph Collection." [This one caught my eye because they not only had to fill in the canal, they had to lower Liberty Street after they removed the bridge to its height before the canal was built. Later photos on that page showed that State Street also had to be lowered.] |
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