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The former Hocking Canal ran through what is now this section of Route 33 in the City of Nelsonville. As an early waterway, it was a tremendous factor in the industrial development of Ohio’s Hocking Coal District. The canal was completed to this point in September 1840, when the first boatload of “stone coal” was shipped by canal to market. Although the railroad succeeded it in 1869, the canal served a full half-century of usefulness before abandonment. This section of the highway was dedicated on October 26th, 1940, just 100 years after the canal’s completion.
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Nelsonville, Ohio · United States
