Downtown Cohoes Historic District
The Downtown Cohoes Historic District takes up 35 acres (14 ha) of the city of Cohoes, New York, United States.
The Downtown Cohoes Historic District takes up 35 acres (14 ha) of the city of Cohoes, New York, United States. Many of the 165 contributing properties date from the 1820-1930 period when the Erie Canal and Harmony Mills were the mainstay of the city's economy. It was recognized as a historic district and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. After years of neglect and decline, it has recently started to see an upswing in business activity due to its historic character and the city's efforts to protect it.
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Worth seeing in and around Downtown Cohoes Historic District
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cohoes Falls
Cohoes Falls is a waterfall on the Mohawk River shared by the city of Cohoes and the town of Waterford, New York. It is roughly 1,000 ft wide, between 75 and 90 ft in height, and compares favorably in other measures to Niagara Falls, yet has no tourist industry and in fact dries up entirely in dry summers.
1.7 km · waterfall · Wikipedia - 02Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery is a nonsectarian rural cemetery in northeastern Troy, New York, United States. It operates under the direction of the Troy Cemetery Association, a non-profit board of directors that deals strictly with the operation of the cemetery.
3.2 km · cemetery in Troy, New York · Wikipedia - 03Peebles Island State Park
Peebles Island State Park is a 190-acre state park located at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers in New York. A majority of the park is located in Saratoga County, with a smaller portion located in Albany County.
1.5 km · New York state park · Wikipedia - 04Federal Dam
The Federal Dam is a manmade dam built across the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York from Troy on the east bank to Green Island on the west bank. The major function of the dam is to improve navigability.
2.8 km · dam owned and operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers in Troy, New York, USA · Wikipedia - 05Day Peckinpaugh
Day Peckinpaugh is a historic canal motorship berthed at the Matton Shipyard on Peebles Island, Cohoes in Albany County, New York, United States.
1.8 km · last self-propelled regularly scheduled commercial ship on the Erie canal · Wikipedia - 06Chancellor
Chancellor was a historic canal tugboat located at Waterford, New York. It was built in 1938 by the Ira S. Bushey & Sons Shipyard of Brooklyn, New York.
2.6 km · historic canal tugboat · Wikipedia - 07Collar City Bridge
The Collar City Bridge carries Interstate 787 and NYS Route 7 across the Hudson River in New York connecting Green Island with Troy. Although the crossing was first proposed in 1954, the bridge was not completed until 1980 due to uncertainties associated with a proposed north-south highway in Troy at the eastern end of the span, attempts to save a historic building, environmental permitting requirements, and litigation.
3.9 km · bridge in Troy New York, United States of America · Wikipedia - 08Harmony Mills
Harmony Mills, in Cohoes, New York, United States, is an industrial district that is bordered by the Mohawk River and the tracks of the former Troy and Schenectady Railroad. It was listed as Harmony Mills Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
800 m · building in New York, United States of America · Wikipedia - 09St. Mark's Episcopal Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 69-75 Hudson Avenue in Green Island, Albany County, New York.
3.7 km · historic church in Green Island, New York, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Downtown Cohoes Historic District
- Airports
- Albany (ALB), 9 km · Bradley (BDL), 125 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 199 km
- Hartford → Downtown Cohoes Historic District1 km · quickest by road, 5 min · $0
- New York → Downtown Cohoes Historic District86 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · $8–11
- Syracuse → Downtown Cohoes Historic District264 km · quickest by road, 5h 46m · $27–37
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Downtown Cohoes Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextVisitors to the Albany area should consider day trips to destinations in the Berkshires of western Mass., including Tanglewood, Mass MoCA, and the Clark Art Institute.
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