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2 unusual facts about James River and Kanawha Canal


James River and Kanawha Canal

Visitors can also visit Three Mile Lock or Pumphouse Park located behind the Carillon in William Byrd Park.

Nicolaas van Staphorst

The Van Staphorst brothers, along with Wilhelm Willink and Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, were in 1789 shareholders in the Holland Land Company, a society that invested in the north of the state of New York, not far from Ontario, Pennsylvania and some canals: the Patowmack Canal, James River and Kanawha Canal and Santee Canal.



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