Newspaper article: Hazel River Project Hopeless From the Start
Identifier: 2018.1.529
Object titles: Hazel River Project Hopeless From the Start
Acquisition and Creation Dates:
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged September 27 2018
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged September 27 2018
RHS Keywords: Transportation
Object Source Information: RHS Archives,RHS reference
Georeference: [38.6059551,-78.1066655]
Description: In 1850 the Hazel River Navigation Company was incorporated, but by 1857, the project had been abandoned. Hundreds of laborers were brought in for the entire length of the planned canal, with many of them coming from Ireland. A flood in 1852 changed the river bed and by then the Thompsonville (Castleton) section had cost $16,679.85. The coming of rail travel made this means of transportation obsolete.
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