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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AOY_pennsylvanias-delaware-hudson-canal-park-at-lock-31_Hawley-PA.html
Locks raise and lower canal boats where the elevation of the land changes. The 972 feet elevation difference between Honesdale, PA on the left side of the blue diagram below, and Kingston, NY on the right side, is drawn using 108 steps. Each step …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AOW_daniels-farmhouse-d-h-canal-park-at-lock-31-towpath-trail-and-riverside-trail_Hawley-PA.html
This historic building dates to the early 1800s and was built using post and beam construction. In 1821 it was owned by Russell Daniels and was called the Daniels Farm. The Delaware & Hudson Canal was built directly behind the house; Lock 31 was p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AOJ_daniels-farmhouse-at-new-castle_Hawley-PA.html
Much had been written about the Delaware & Hudson Canal but unfortunately, that is not the case for this building, especially its early years.
According to Phineas Goodrich in his 1880 book, History of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, "about [1815], J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ANO_facts-about-the-delaware-hudson-canal-1828-1898_Hawley-PA.html
It took nearly three years (spring of 1826 to fall of 1828) to build the Delaware & Hudson Canal primarily with German, Scotch, and Irish immigrant labor with the help of horses, hand tools and unpredictable black powder. Dynamite and matches had …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ANN_delaware-hudson-canal-company-boat-outline_Hawley-PA.html
The wooden stakes with white rope in front of you, show the size of a D & H Canal Co. boat after 1850, when they were eighty-nine feet long and fourteen and a half feet wide.
At the stern (back end) was a small cabin which was about twelve by f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABU_9-11-memorial_Hawley-PA.html
Our community mourns the loss of those
who perished during the terrorist attacks
carried out on U. S. soil on
September 11, 2001.
We remember their sacrifice as well as
that of their families and friends—
from all walks of life and m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABQ_war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Hawley-PA.html
In honor of
those who died
for their
country
They gave
their today
for our
tomorrow
Dedicated
Nov. 13, 1960
V.F.W. 5823
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AAV_bingham-park_Hawley-PA.html
This park, once flooded
as a basin for
canal boats on the
Delaware & Hudson Canal,
was purchased by
Adelbert W. Bingham
and donated by him
and Margaret Bingham,
his wife, to the
Borough of
Hawley, Pennsylvania
March 15, 1929
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OKZ_the-white-mills-community-trail_Hawley-PA.html
Transportation was essential to the success of the Dorflinger glassmaking enterprise. With its location on the banks of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, White Mills was positioned to receive raw materials by canal boat. Finished goods could be sent …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OKX_the-white-mills-community-trail_Hawley-PA.html
Eugene A. Dorflinger Sr., Christian Dorflinger's cousin who had also emigrated from Alsace, established a general store in White Mills in 1869. The family home was behind the store on Charles Street across from the St. Charles Hotel. Eugene's prop…