The D&H Canal Historical Society’s mission is to highlight the importance of the D&H Canal and preserve its stories, landscapes, and artifacts. The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was a seminal capitalistic enterprise in early America. Operating their canal from 1828 to 1898, the D&H was the first private company in American history to have an initial capitalization in excess of one million dollars- the $1,500,000 subscribed by 2:00pm in one day is equal to $40,787,121.21 today. It was one of America’s first vertically integrated companies—a coal mining concern that built and operated transportation networks to get their product to market. They owned mines in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where they extracted the anthracite coal. After bringing it to the surface, they transported it 17 miles over the Moosic Mountains on America’s first Gravity Railroad, then loaded the coal onto boats at Honesdale, Pennsylvania—the start of the Canal. By 1850, it was the largest coal company in America.

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October 1 through April 30
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