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 > [log in to unmask] > > To be put on the mailing list for the weekly TimeMaster radio scripts, as > well as news of updates to my homepage, e-mail me at the address above. > > http://home.eznet.net/~dminor > > 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 -- ________________________________ Joseph A. Cutshall-King Grant Writing/Fund Raising Services Associate of Charles R. Putney, Development Services for Nonprofits; Bennington, VT PO Box 154 693 County Route 49 Cossayuna, NY 12823 Tel.: 518-692-9505 E-mail: [log in to unmask]