Foss: Exploring the Binnekill
Foss: Exploring the Binnekill | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Peter Pasternak discovered the Binnekill while kayaking. The small inlet was once a major waterway, where goods such as fur and rum were traded and shipped and people traveling west embarked on their journeys. A painting by Capital Region artist Len Tantillo, titled “Schenectady Harbor, 1814,” shows the wharves, warehouses and boat-building facilities that grew up around the Binnekill, making it a forerunner to the Erie Canal. Today the Binnekill is mostly forgotten – a hidden, somewhat anonymous shadow of its former sel...
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