Visit the Burden Iron Works Museum in Troy NY for a trip through industrial history
Last month I took a drive across New York, following the path of the Erie Canal. The canal represented the start of the industrial revolution in New York, providing raw materials and markets to allow the growth of industry, especially in the Albany area. Nowhere was that more true than in the city of Troy NY. Today that history is lovingly maintained at the Burden Iron Works Museum . Troy, New York was one of the centers of industrial growth in the 19 th century. It sits along a promontory the town that is between 200 and 280 feet high. There are two majr streams that drain from the Berkshire-Taconic plateau, the Poesten Kill and the Wynants Kill. The drop to the Hudson River provided the power that drove the development of industry in Troy. One of the largest of those was the Burden Iron Works. B Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print via wikicommons Henry Burden was ...