The original wooden aqueduct, built in 1825, carried the Erie Canal over the Mohawk River and was compared to the building of the Pyramids as the longest aqueduct in the world at the time. The wooden structure was demolished in 1918 and replaced by a 26-arched stone structure, with a towpath on one side for mules pulling boats and a toll bridge for pedestrian and stagecoach travel. In 1847, the Noyes Family built the Toll House so people could pay a toll to cross the bridge and travel south over the river. Only fragments of the stone aqueduct remain by the riverbank, testifying to a time when local travel was drastically different, before the stone structure was replaced by the first of many Crescent Bridges.