Erie Canal Museum
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Erie Canal Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 123 m. Morgan Hill stands 618 m to the south-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Hanover Square, a park 0.1 miles away. Route 20 Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off.
The story
The Erie Canal Museum is a historical museum about the Erie Canal located in Syracuse, New York. The museum was founded in 1962 and is a private, non-profit corporation. It is housed in the Syracuse Weighlock Building dating from 1850. The Syracuse Weighlock Building was in operation as a weighlock from 1850 to 1883. In 1883 the canal decided to stop charging tolls. The weighlock building was essentially used as a big, elaborate scale to weigh the boats traveling on the Erie Canal and determine how much each boat would pay for a toll. Today the museum includes not only artifacts from the Erie Canal, but also a gallery of present canal life. It is the mission of the museum to help people to learn the rich history of the Erie Canal and that it is not just a thing of the past, but still very much exists today in different forms. The museum's Weighlock Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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Dates from 1962.
Wikidata Q5388279, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 11.2 mi off the Route 20 Scenic Byway
- 28.0 mi off the Scenic Route 90
- 28.2 mi off the Revolutionary Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Hanover Square: 0.1 mi
- M. Lemp Park: 0.2 mi
- Firefighter's Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
- Salina Plaza: 0.2 mi
- Robert R. Haggart Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Chestnut Ridge: 3.7 mi
- Gillis Hill: 5.5 mi
- Clark Hill: 6.0 mi
- Terre Hill: 6.6 mi
- Smith Hill: 7.1 mi
- Bigsby Drumlin: 3.5 mi
- Wiesner Green Space: 4.0 mi
- Lafayette Road Experiment Station: 4.2 mi
- Richards Green Space: 4.5 mi
- Split Rock Unique Area: 5.1 mi
- Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 0.2 mi
- Jerry Rescue Monument: 0.2 mi
- Korea-Vietnam Veteran's Monument: 0.4 mi
- People's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: 0.4 mi
- Shot Clock Monument: 0.4 mi
- Onondaga Historical Association Museum & Research Center: 0.2 mi
- Museum of Science and Technology: 0.4 mi
- Everson Museum of Art: 0.4 mi
- Sainte Marie Mission Site Museum: 3.8 mi
- Skä•noñh Center: 3.8 mi
- One, Two, Three: 0.3 mi
- Walt: 0.4 mi
- Waiting for the Night Train: 0.4 mi
- Lincoln Statue: 1.1 mi
- Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: 1.1 mi
- Brickyard Falls: 9.4 mi
- Marcellus Falls: 10.2 mi
- Edwards Falls: 10.3 mi
- Pratts Falls: 11.4 mi
- Guppy Falls: 13.7 mi
- Bitternut Collective Permaculture Kitchen Garden: 1.1 mi
- E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden: 1.3 mi
- South Side Garden: 1.7 mi
- Morningside Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- James Pass Arboretum: 2.2 mi
- Jamesville Beach: 6.8 mi
- Green Lakes Beach: 9.4 mi
- Valentine's Beach: 11.5 mi
- Oneida Shores: 12.2 mi
- Verona Beach: 22.8 mi
- Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center: 0.5 mi
- Onondaga Lake Parkway Bridge: 3.6 mi
- Great New York State Fair: 3.6 mi
- New York State Fairgrounds: 3.8 mi
- Harriet Tubman Gravesite: 23.1 mi
- Galster Pavilion: 5.1 mi
- Cedar Bay Pavilion: 5.6 mi
- Willow Bay: 6.4 mi
- Spruce Grove Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Poolsbrook Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
- Dorwin Springs: 4.6 mi
- Preble: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Erie Canal Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Hill | SSE 157° | 618 m | 19.9 mi |
| Truxton Hill | S 169° | 616 m | 20.6 mi |
| Fellows Hill | SSE 159° | 611 m | 17.8 mi |
| Labrador Hill | SSE 166° | 606 m | 19.4 mi |
| Ripley Hill | SSW 194° | 604 m | 18.6 mi |
| Kinney Hill | SE 136° | 599 m | 21.8 mi |
| Jones Hill | SSE 163° | 598 m | 18.5 mi |
| Arab Hill | SE 143° | 593 m | 19.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:39 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 20:05 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:26 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 15:47 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Syracuse Hancock Intl AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Syracuse · 0 mi
- Skaneateles · 16 mi
- Cazenovia · 17 mi
- Central New York · 18 mi
- Weedsport · 21 mi
- Auburn · 23 mi
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