Little Falls Aqueduct

Geneva Palladium
Nov. 6, 1822

From the Utica Gazette

The aqueduct across the Mohawk Rover, at Little Falls, was finished last week and filled with water. This is a structure of considerable magnitude, built entirely of stone, in point of solidity and beauty, probably not exceeded by any work of the kind in the United State. It forms a connection between the Erie Canal and the old cut on the opposite side of the river, and answers the double purposes of opening a communication to the village of Little Falls, and of feeding the canal with water.

A Marble slab , with the following inscription, executed in a very handsome style by Mr. Erastus Cross, of this village, is placed in the parapet wall over the centre in the principal arch.

ERECTED IN 1822
COMMENCED AUG. 23 - COmpleted Oct. 15.
Canal Commissioners.
DE WITT CLINTON, President.
STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER,
SAMUEL YOUNG, HENRY SEYMOR,
MYRON HOLLEY, WILLIAM C. BOUCK
HENRY SEYMOUR, Acting Commissioner,
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, Chief Engineer.
CANVASS WHITE, Assistant,
ARA ROADWELL, Builder.