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Fairport is a village located in the Town of Perinton, which is part of Monroe County, New York, United States. Fairport is a suburb 9 miles (14 km) east of Rochester. It is also known as the "Crown Jewel of the Erie Canal". [2] The population of the Village of Fairport was 5,501 as of the 2020 census.
The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians.
The New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal) is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York. The 525-mile (845 km) system is composed of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga–Seneca Canal, and the Champlain Canal. [2] In 2014 the entire system was listed as a national historic ...
Days in the Park is one of the most popular events of the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival. It opened at Silver Park on Wednesday night and continues through Saturday. Festival hours are 4 to 9 ...
Bastille Days takes place in downtown Milwaukee's Cathedral Square Park, 520 E. Wells St., from Thursday, July 11, to Sunday, July 14. The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Thursday through ...
14000860 [9] Added to NRHP. October 15, 2014. Location. The Fairport Lift Bridge is a through-truss mechanical vertical-lift bridge that carries NY Route 250 (Main Street) over the Erie Canal in downtown Fairport, New York, United States. [6] [10] It was constructed in 1913–14 by the Lackawanna Bridge Company of Buffalo, New York, and ...
Between 1981 and 1999, the festival was a two-day event. From 2000, it was expanded to three days—Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The festival takes place on the second full weekend in August. Originally known as just "the Cropredy reunion", the event was branded Cropredy Festival until 2005 when it was retitled Fairport's Cropredy Convention.
Richardson's Canal House. / 43.06194°N 77.47722°W / 43.06194; -77.47722. Richardson's Tavern is a historic Erie Canal inn and tavern located in the hamlet of Bushnell's Basin in Perinton, Monroe County, New York. Believed to be the only remaining establishment from the canal's earliest years, [ 2] it dates to about 1818 when it was a ...