Cohoes Company Power Canal System, Level 2, North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

These records were prepared as part of the Mohawk-Hudson Area Survey, a pilot study for the Historic American Engineering Record which was established in 1969 under the aegis of the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Significance: The canals of the Cohoes Company comprised a typical, major power canal system, providing the power source for the city's mills and factories by supplying water for the water wheels and later for the turbines that drove the machinery in the mills.

Survey number: HAER NY-9

Building/structure dates: 1865 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78003151

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1969 - 1980

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