Historical souvenir of Phoenix, , and vicinity . m Syra-cuse on the Oswegocanal are as follows: Sa-liua 2 miles, Liverpool 5miles. Mud Lock 7 miles,Cold Spring 8 miles, New-Bridge 13 miles, ThreeRiver Point 15 miles,Phoenix 17 miles, SweetsLock 20 miles, Ox (reek23 27 miles,Braddocks lva])ids :il The River Bridge. which crosses the river at Phienix waserected uiuler the following circumstances—related by Gouverneur Sweet:—•James Frazeeof Baldwiusville, John Pardee of Lysander aidmyself were the commissioners. It was duringthe term of James Lascher, assemblyman fromthis county
Historical souvenir of Phoenix, , and vicinity . m Syra-cuse on the Oswegocanal are as follows: Sa-liua 2 miles, Liverpool 5miles. Mud Lock 7 miles,Cold Spring 8 miles, New-Bridge 13 miles, ThreeRiver Point 15 miles,Phoenix 17 miles, SweetsLock 20 miles, Ox (reek23 27 miles,Braddocks lva])ids :il The River Bridge. which crosses the river at Phienix waserected uiuler the following circumstances—related by Gouverneur Sweet:—•James Frazeeof Baldwiusville, John Pardee of Lysander aidmyself were the commissioners. It was duringthe term of James Lascher, assemblyman fromthis county, that three or four of us went toAlbany to see what we could do towardsgetting a bill through for a new bridge. Twi>)iine structures had rotted and it had beenfound necessary to build a good oe. We securedthe enactment of a law for the expenditure of,?$10,000 a quarter of which to be paid, eachbv the two counties, of Onondaga and Oswego,and the two towns, of Lysander and \ffcr the excavation of the Seneca river at Jacks. Mrs. S. .1. Iliulii. \V. 11 \ki;M.\.N .-< ; GKIPS HISTORICAIi SOUVENIli OF PHCENIX. 43 reefs the annual floods had jjoured down upon usworse than ever and it had been necessary to raisethe abutments of the old structure. It was founddesirable to raise them between four and live feetfor the new bridge. But to do all of that out ofthe amount appropriated was impossilile, if wewere to have a durable structure. Howard Soulecame to our relief. He wrote us that he had allthe patterns for the Whijiple iron bridge and afoundry, and that for the appropriation we hadsecured he would give us an iron bridge and putin oak needle beams. It was finally agreed thathe should go ahead and put in iron needle beamsfor a small additional sum which we arranged withthe supervisors of our town to have audited whenthe bill was presented. I believe the extra costwas about .$1,200 for each town. Bridges.—On April 30, 1830, John W
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