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Year:  [1824, [1786, [1821, [1849, [1794, 1794]]]]]  Item type(s):  Clippings   Groups:  Lyons Advertiser   Sort by:  Oldest date (to newest)
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), September 13, 1822 
TextNewspapers    Public Vessels at Sackets Harbor. - The National Intelligencer contains the following statement, from the Navy Department, respecting the vessels belonging to the United States, lying at Sackets Harbor: Ship New-Orleans, well covered, and in a state of preservation. Chippewa, ...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Friday, Nov. 8, 1822 
TextNewspapers    Sacket's Harbor, Oct. 11. Dreadful Shipwreck. - Loss of the schooner Appellona, W. Merritt, master. This vessel left Oswego on the evening of the 14th inst. partly laden with pot ashes, salt, and about 16 tons of stone ballast, bound to Genesee. About half past 10 P.M. Oswego light bearing ...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Friday, Dec. 6, 1822 
TextNewspapers    New Village. - A new village, which has been named Brockport, has commenced where the Erie Canal intersects the main road leading from Clarkson to LeRoy. It is we believe about two miles south of the Ridge Road, in the town of Clarkson, Monroe county. _____ Canal Revenue. - It is stated...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), June 21, 1822 
TextNewspapers    Reduction of Toll. - At the late meeting of the Canal Commissioners at Buffalo, the Collector of toll of this village informs us, that a resolution was passed, by which the toll upon all articles passing on the canal, between the Seneca and Genesee Rivers, is reduced to one half of the rates ...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Friday, Nov. 8, 1822 
TextNewspapers    Arrived at this village (Rochester,) on Wednesday last, the Canal Boat Western Trader, Capt. Garney, from Utica, with a full freight of Emigrants, consisting of eight families, in all sixty persons, who have come the distance of 150 miles, for the moderate sum of $1.50 each - thus completely ...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Dec. 13, 1822 
TextNewspapers    Northern Canal. - The last stone of the Northern canal, was laid by Gov. Clinton, President of the Board of Canal Commissioners, on the 28th Nov. in presence of a great assemblage of people. The Canal is connected with the Hudson at Waterford, at the head of sloop navigation, by three beautiful...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Aug. 2, 1822 
TextNewspapers    The Erie Canal. No. III Aqueduct across Genesee River. - This important work is placed on a rapid of some length, and about twenty-four feet fall, which is formed by one of those rolls of land, and barriers of hidden rock, which, though at several miles distance from it, evidently mark the ...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Friday, August 2, 1822 
TextNewspapers    The Canal Completed through the Cayuga Marshes. - By the following, from a valued correspondent at Montezuma, it will be seen that the great work of excavating the canal through the Cayuga Marshes, is at length completed, and that the navigation is now uninterrupted between this village and the...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Sept. 23, 1822 
TextNewspapers    From the Albany Argus Erie Canal We have recently had an opportunity of acquiring some information respecting the progress of the eastern section of this great work, which we presume will be gratifying to our readers. It will be recollected that this section has, for the last and present ...
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 7 Jun 1822 
TextNewspapers    On Oct. 29, 1822 the first boat left the basin on the east side of the Genesee River in Rochester loaded with flour for Little Falls. - P. 70, Landmarks of Wayne County, Edited by George W. Cowles, (Syracuse) 1895.
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 9 Aug 1822 
TextNewspapers    New Post office - A post office has been established at the village of Newark (Miller's Basin) in this town; Leman Hotchkiss is appointed postmaster....
Canal 
TextNewspapers  "Canal," Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 25 Oct 1822  Canal - The navigation on the Erie Canal is now uninterrupted between Rochester and Little Falls. The great embankment at Mann's Mills. about which there has been expressed so much solicitude and such general frustration was completed some time since, and there is now a good supply of water....
Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), Wed., Aug. 27, 1823 
TextNewspapers    We understand that two boats intended for the new line of packets on the canal, were launched at Bucksville Saturday last. They are said to be very superior boats, possessing elegant accommodations. ...
Canal Navigation 
TextNewspapers  "Canal Navigation," Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 17 Jan 1823  Canal Navigation. The following statements shews the amount of property which passed this village on the Erie Canal, in 1822-- It will be recollected that this section of the canal was not navigable from the first of July till about the first of November 32,703 bbls. Flour 12,181 bbls. Salt...
Packet Boats 
TextNewspapers  "Packet Boats," Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 13 Apr 1823  The navigation of the canal has recommenced with activity and spirit, and the superabundant produce of the country is passing rapidly to market. As the packets have not yet began their regular trips, the freight boats are many of them crowded with passengers, who have been waiting the...
Canal Steam Boats 
TextNewspapers  "Canal Steam Boats," Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 2 Jul 1824  Canal Steam Boats. - The steamboat "Erie Canal" passed this village on Wednesday last, on her way to the west. There are different opinions with regard to the practicability of employing steamboats on the canal - that is, whether, notwithstanding the cheapness of fuel, they can be made to perform...
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