Man at the Pump - revisited
“The Man At the Pump” There is a wonderful article in the Auburn Journal & Advertiser newspaper issue dated Wednesday, October 26th 1842. The author of which provides an interesting anecdote about a grist mill water wheel that continued to spin under the force of flowing water long after the mill burnt to the ground. “There and thus, like a troubled spirit, rolled the water wheel of the woods— onward, onward, onward—and for all that we know, it is revolving there still,” the article states. But this is just the writer’s set up, to deepen the understanding of his following paragraphs in which he takes on the Albany Regency and their “wisdom” in regards to projects at a standstill on the enlargement of the Erie Canal . One such project being the great aqueduct “at the mouth of the Schoharie-Kill.” The enlargement of the canal was a process that started in 1836 and would last until...
