The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal by Michael Doyle

The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal

Michael Doyle

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times...

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