July 28, 2017 Friday
Visiting the museum we learned that at the turn of the twentieth century the Village of Spencerport, incorporated in 1865, was primarily a farming community. The farmers of Spencerport used the Erie Canal to export apples, potatoes, and cabbage east in exchange for manufactured goods. Today it is primarily a tourist town, we enjoyed walking the Canalway Trail and around the manicured town but we didn’t see many tourists.
A very lazy day, only 7.5 miles to Brockport, no locks, and no lift bridges, just watching for logs and enjoying the scenery. We arrived in Brockport just in time to watch a fisherman land a good size carp.
The Village of Brockport, incorporated in 1829, was once a booming manufacturing village shipping its goods up and down the Erie Canal. These goods included farm implements, shoes, paper boxes, pianos, small appliances, glass bottles, clocks, and galvanized pails and tubs. Now it is home to State University of New York College at Brockport, home of 8,413 students. It might have been a lazy day on the water but with the three-mile walk this morning and six-mile walk this afternoon I think we did okay in the exercise department.
Take a look at the Rock Cut video, can you image digging that by hand.
