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George W. Johnson Park Carousel, Endicott, New York. The carousel and its setting. (G. Joseph Socki) Crawford Ditch, El Dorado County, California, was built in 1852 as the second segment of the Jones, Furman & Company ditch system to provide river water to miners of the Mother Lode Gold Rush. The trough- shaped earthen trench averages 5 feet across between the edge of the up -hill bank and the inner face of the retaining berm. The Crawford'Ditch is the last functioning industrial structure in the Pleasant Valley area of El Dorado County. Only the Clear Creek segment of the Crawford Ditch is nominated; the remainder of the ditch has lost its historic integrity. The legal right-of- way of the ditch was used to define the National Register boundaries. Verbal boundary description: A 7.5 -mile -long ditch with a 50- foot -wide working right -of -way. It falls in that length from the Clear Creek intake weir (near Pleasant Valley) at the 2,285 -foot contour to the feeder siphon at the northeast side of the intersection of Hanks Exchange Road and Ranch Road (near the Hanks Exchange Gbmmunity at the 2,245 -foot contour). See the accompanying USGS map, Camino Quadrangle, California, 7.5 minute series (topographic), photorevised 1973, the Crawford Ditch. Find the Clear Creek segment per the UTM references noted above, as marked on the map. Boundary justification: The boundaries encompass the one remain- ing section of the Crawford Ditch that retains sufficient integrity to meet National Register standards. The boundaries encompass the ditch and the right -of -way historically associated with it. 42 Newport Stone Arch Bridge, Newport, Herkimer County, New York, was built in 1853 to join the older core of the village on the east bank of West Canada Creek with an industrial and residential area on the west bank. The nominated property includes an area of the West Canada Creek and its bank approximately 250 feet in length and 225 feet in width. In addition to the bridge itself, the site includes two contributing stone retaining walls on the west bank of the creek. A concrete dam north of the bridge and a modern power generation facility east of the bridge are excluded from the nominated property. The Newport Stone Arch Bridge is a good example of tradi- tional arched masonry bridge con- struction and represents a significant Crawford Ditch, El Dorado County, California. Detail of a USGS map showing the nominated segment of the ditch.