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The Rondout Creek at this site served as the tidewater terminal for the D and H Canal, a constructed waterway of 108 miles completed in 1828. Beginning at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, hundreds of flat canal boats carried millions of tons of coal, timber, and other materials toward the great metropolitan markets of the East Coast. Commerce along the canal prospered until after the Civil War, when growing competition from railroads caused a slow decline and final abandonment by the turn of the century.
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Kingston, New York · United States
