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Delphos native pens novel with canal setting
The Delphos Herald, June 13, 2006 by Mike Ford
DELPHOS— The land was untamed. It was covered with wilderness and wild vegetation; it was mostly swamp. Western Ohio was isolated from the rest of the state and the developing nation. It was disconnected from commerce in an era before roadways, before railroads.
The Miami-Erie Canal changed that by enabling local settlers to buy and sell goods as close as Cincinnati and as far as New York.
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