Western movement continues, Building Early roads...

Western movement continues, Building Early roads...

Western Movement Continues

• As people continued to move west, new towns sprang up in central and western New York.

• For Example, In 1784, Hugh White founded Whitestone in Oneida County.

• During this time, others set up a trading post and saltworks at the former capital of the Iroquois confederacy. This was later known as as Syracuse.

• Judge William Cooper helped found Cooperstown at the southern tip of Ostego Lake.

• Utica, along the Mohawk River, became a village in 1798. This would be the starting point for Genessee Road.

Western Movement Continues

• Thousands of settlers used the Genessee road to reach their new land on that frontier.

• Joseph Ellicott, who worked for Holland Land Company, laid out a plan for Buffalo in 1801. Then two years later Nathaniel Rochester and two partners laid out the plans for Rochester near the falls of Genessee river.

Over time...

• People built sawmills to cut trees into lumber and gristmills to grind wheat into flour. They built more homes, and started new businesses and farms. They also built markets and schools!

Open Ended

How did central and western New York Change as more people moved there?

Building early roads

• How did people get from one place to another during a time when there was so much expansion?

• People needed a faster and cheaper way to transport crops, lumber, and other goods to the market.

• In early 1800s private companies built turnpikes.

• A turnpike is a narrow, bumpy road that companies built and charged people to use. A long pole, or pike, blocks the entrance to each section of the road, and the traveller muster pay a toll to get through.

The Turnpike was narrow and bumpy...

• That people actually used sleighs in the winter to get through!

• There were two turnpikes built in 1809 and the roads were not paved, so when they became wet, wagons could not travel on them.

• Other roads linked communities such as Oswego, Bath, Ithaca, and Auburn to the main routes or too each other.