New York, Schenectady County, Schenectady
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Constructed in 1892 for
Thomas Edison's research on
lighting and later for
Doppler Radar development
for the United States
Government was restored in
1998 by Warren Camp with
support from The City Of
Schenectady and The New York
State Economic Development
Zone Program.
(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Constructed in 1892 forThomas Edison's research on
lighting and later for
Doppler Radar development
for the United States
Government was restored in
1998 by Warren Camp with
support from The City Of
Schenectady and The New York
State Economic Development
Zone Program.
(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The Southern Tier Roller Mills maintained operations here until 1918. Eight years later the building was purchased by the Corning Glass Works and in 1930 became the club house for employee recreational facilities. After these activities were transferred to the class center in 1951 it was used as an office building. Immediately following the Agnes flood of 1972 this building served as Corning Glass Works corporate headquarters and for a brief period of time a radio transmitter on the top floor was the sole link with the outside world. Restored 1974
The Wyandot were a North American Indian people descended from the aboriginal inhabitants of the Ontario Peninsula, between present day Niagara, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. The ancient name for more than a dozen Iriquoian speaking tribes of this region was Wendat; the French called them Huron. Hunting and fishing could not provide the economic base needed so the Wendot became intensive slash and burn farmers of maize, beans, squash, sunflowers, peas, pumpkins, melons, and tobacco. The Wendot lived a sedentary life in palisaded, densely populated villages made up of bark covered longhouses.
200 yards north east of this point stood
200 yards north west of the
On July 1st, 1887, an attempt
Near this point stood the locally famous inn built by Dan T. Cole in 1860. By 1890 the three-story roadhouse contained 16 lodging rooms, a dining and dance hall, bar, post office and telegraph station. A division point for the towns of Downieville, Goodyears Bar, and Forest City on the Henness Pass Road, its blacksmith and two barns provided hay for teams and fresh horses for stage companies. The inn was torn down in the 1920’s, when the construction of Highway 49 in the canyon below led to the route’s decline.
Louis Thomas de Joncaire, a French soldier captured and adopted by the Seneca until repatriated in 1694, played an important role for the French as an interpreter and trader. Joncaire and his sons are the French men most commonly associated with the Lower Landing
Forest City’s early placer gold claims were worked out by 1865 leaving the town “busted.” In 1870 a company of local miners and businessmen located a lost section of “The Great Blue Lead,” a 60 million year old north – south running gravel channel beneath Bald Mountain. Eventually 30 miles of “drifts” or horizontal tunnels were run to remove the gravel with the help of the first underground steam locomotive on the Pacific Coast. Sluices for washing out the gold stretched over a mile downstream. Ten years as the state’s largest drift mine employing up to 250 men fueled the town’s second boom. By 1887 the mine’s production totaled 150,000 ounces of gold.
The close proximity of the gold mines and the railroad construction contributed to Marysville’s large Chinese population in the mid to late 1880’s. When those activities diminished, the Chinese worked in various occupations, many as laborers building rock walls throughout Northern California.
The Old French Cemetery
