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Duke Fordham's Inn stood here until it was destroyed by the fire of 1845. At the inn, James Fenimore Cooper penned his first novel, Precaution, while awaiting the return of the whaleship Union, in which he owned shares along with his uncle, local cooper Edward Cooper. Precaution was not a best-seller, but it and Cooper's proceeds from the Union encouraged his further writings, which culminated in The Last of the Mohicans.
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