But what really got the small hamlet booming was the arrival of the Delaware and Hudson Canal. Construction started in 1825 and was completed in 1829. During the 19th century, the canal moved goods to ...

The Matthewis Persen House Museum Uptown will host a number of events on Saturdays this month with topics ranging from the D&H Canal to the Revolutionary War along with the opening of Harambee’s ...

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MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Dec. 7.--The season of navigation on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which practically closed to-day, has been a successful and prosperous one both for the company and the boatmen.

Thomas Joseph McGinnis of Honesdale, the last surviving captain of a D&H canal boat, is still fondly remembered nearly 50 years after his death. The Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal Company operated ...

HONESDALE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Delaware and Hudson was chartered in 1823 as a canal company to provide a link between Pennsylvania coal fields around Carbondale and New York City.

Earlier, in 1827, Jervis became the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and designed the Stourbridge Lion, built by Foster, Rastrick and Company of England.

Bill Merchant, of the D&H Historical Society, points to one of the exhibits at the Delaware & Hudson Canal Museum in High Falls, N.Y., on Friday, May 6, 2022.

Bill Merchant. On the C-SPAN Networks: Bill Merchant is a Deputy Director for Collections in the Delaware and Hudson Canal Historical Society with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

No one has made a full-scale canal boat in Wayne County since before the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) canal was closed in 1898. Until now — at least a full-scale replica representation. Tom Colbert ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 4 No. 30 (April 1849), p. 234 doi:10.1038 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Coal Handling Machinery at the Rondout Yard of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 62 No. 23 (June ...