Enjoy these photos and details from a lost world near Ilion NY. For over 200 years, Remington Arms manufactured guns and ammo. I can’t tell you where this lock is in relation to the other images. Many thanks to the CSNY for sharing these photos and to Bill Hecht for cleaning them up.
Enjoy these photos and details from a lost world near Ilion NY.
For over 200 years, Remington Arms manufactured guns and ammo.
I can’t tell you where this lock is in relation to the other images.
Many thanks to the CSNY for sharing these photos and to Bill Hecht for cleaning them up.
Steven Talbot’s ‘Enlarged Erie Canal Map Viewer’ shows the location of the Frankfort Dry Dock as just north of what is now the intersection of McGowan Rd and Bridge St on the NW edge of Ilion.
The lock pictured is Number 44, which was about 1/3 mile NW of the Dry Dock, directly behind the present-day residence at 4300 Acme Rd.
The Remington Arms postcard looks westward from a point on the towpath just east of the bridge that once carried Catherine St over the Canal in downtown Ilion.
Comparing Google streetview to these old photos, the only surviving structure I could positively identify is the red brick factory building on the left side of the Remington postcard with the Stars and Stripes up top.
Almost everything else has been buried, modified or sent to the Lost World. We are very fortunate that the region around Montezuma and Port Byron has so many visible and preserved sections of the Enlarged
Lee- Good point. I need to make more use of Steven’s viewer. Thx for the reminder: https://cdn.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=3cdcc697ef31472ca15f55b3b40496f9
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