Judy, Thanks for the citation, Mike At 11:48 AM 9/29/99 -0400, you wrote: >There is an article that refers to highway construction in Fulton, N.Y., in >thePublications of the Oswego County Historical Society, in an article about a >major of Fulton. I cannot remember the name of the article, but the >Publications are indexed online at www.oswego.edu. This will bring you to the >homepage for SUNY Oswego. Then you can go to Penfield Library, Special >Collections to find the index. Judy Wellman > >Michael Fein wrote: > >> I am currently writing a dissertation on highway construction in New York >> State from 1890 to 1956. I am primarily interested in the politics and >> economics of road building at the state and local levels, though my >> interests extend as well to the social transformation that the highways >> helped bring about. I have done extensive research at the New York State >> Archives and Library, as well as the Science, Business and Technology >> branch of the New York Public Library. The unpublished State Highway >> Department records are spotty however before the 1940s, and county records >> are even harder to pin down. Does anyone have any knowlede of local >> repositories of early roadbuilding records? Or, would anyone like to share >> information about particular roads (political battles, >> construction/contractor information, labor strife, etc.) from the good >> roads movement of the 1890s, through the 'golden age' of state road >> building in the 1920s, the New Deal public works road projects or grade >> crossing elimination projects of the 1930s, or the Thruway in the 1940s? >> (One note: I am hoping to maintain a focus in this project on New York >> State and the early state highway system, rather than tackle New York City >> and its environs. Robert Moses is already the subject of a very large >> book, and I plan to concentrate my efforts elsewhere.) >> >> Thank you in advance, >> >> Michael Fein >> Dept. of American History >> Brandeis University >> -------------------------------------- >> Michael R. Fein >> Research Associate >> Harvard Business School >> >> (v) 617-496-7385 >> (f) 617-496-7366 >> [log in to unmask] > -------------------------------------- Michael R. Fein Research Associate Harvard Business School (v) 617-496-7385 (f) 617-496-7366 [log in to unmask]