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About 1870, the Chenango Canal was photographed looking south from the canal bridge that crossed East Main Street at Canal Street. In the foreground stood Edwin Smith's Warehouse, later known as R.D. Eaton Grain and Seed Company. Curving away in the background directly behind the feed warehouse was the H. Thompson and Company Foundry and Machine Shop, where iron fences and agricultural implements were produced. Part of a canal boat appears on the left side of the picture, the only known photograph of a canal boat in Norwich. Curving away in the distance on the left was the Norwich Gas and Light Company, whose plant provided coal gas to illuminate 18 lamp posts in the Village of Norwich. By 2007, the P&C Shopping Center buildings and parking lot almost completely covered the site of the canal and the manufacturing plants that had surrounded it there.
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