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Bear Mountain Bridge and Tollhouse
Camp Smith, New York
When completed in 1924, the 1,641-foot-long edifice was the largest suspension bridge in the world. The Tudor-style tollhouse provides tourist information for Bear Mountain’s parks.

Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park
Buffalo, New York

USS Little Rock, USS The Sullivans, and USS Croaker are among the historic ships on display at the naval park.


Burden Ironworks Museum
Troy, New York
The 19th-century iron works and industrial complex, wedged between the Hudson River and Wynantskil Creek, housed the Burden Water Wheel, the most powerful vertical water wheel of its kind ever built.

Champlain Valley Transportation Museum
Plattsburgh, New York
The Champlain Valley Transportation Museum traces the history of transportation in the valley region from the earliest canoes to what was once the most expensive car in America.

Clermont State Historic Site
Germantown, New York

Clermont State Historic Site includes a visitor's center, carriage trails, formal gardens and exhibition galleries along with the renovated mansion, home to seven generations of the historic Livingston family.


Destroyer Escort Historical Museum: USS Slater
Albany, New York

During World War II 563 Destroyer Escorts battled Nazi U-Boats on the North Atlantic protecting convoys of men and material.  Today, only one of these ships remains afloat in the United States: the USS Slater.


Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Waterford, New York

The corridor encompasses New York’s canal system and the communities that grew along its shores. It’s a place with stories to tell, great works of architecture to see, history to be learned, and hundreds of miles of scenic and recreational waterway and trails to explore.


Hanford Mills Museum
East Meredith, New York
The museum studies the evolution of power generation and technology and how it contributed to the unsettling of rural America.
 
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