You should check with the Fort Edward Town Historian, R. Paul McCarty, regarding
the manufacture of concrete barges there in WW I.

NYHISTLED wrote:

> I received the following e-mail, referring to the Rochester area. Does
> anyone have any thing to add? Let me know and I'll pass the information on.
> - David Minor
>
> ...my husband lived aboard a Hedger Cement  Barge during the depression
> because his father was the capt and families were  permitted to live
> aboard. He has much information about that life and about the  school on
> Pearl St that was there strictly for children of the canal and barge
> families. Do you know anything about this? Do you anyone who would be
> interested  in the information? I cannot find any written history about
> this unique  situation and would like it recorded before it is too late,
> there are few of  these people about any longer.
>
> David Minor
> Eagles Byte Historical Research
> Pittsford, New York
> 716 264-0423
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>
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> well as news of updates to my homepage, e-mail me at the address above.
>
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>
> includes NYNY, a series of timelines covering New York City and State, from
> approximately 1,100,000,000 BC to 1990 AD.
>
> "I would undertake to supply your demands if your generosity is equal to them."
>         -John Bartram, U. S. naturalist

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