Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
Friday, March 19, 2010
Bird's Eye View of the Hudson-Mohawk Valley from Cohoes
This view was taken from a hill area in Cohoes that would later be called Summit Street and where worker housing was built for Harmony Mills employees and their families. I think the photographer who took this image, probably stood in the undeveloped area that later became my godfather's backyard at 28 Summit St.
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