| Napanoch, NY |
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| Means of shipment of goods to and from Napanoch |
D&H Canal. Eastern NY Correctional Facility in the background. The stones to build the Facility
were brought to the site by way of the canal and by the Railroad.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile, man-made waterway, an engineering feat of pre-industrial
America that brought a new form of energy from the hills of Pennsylvania out to the Hudson River. From 1828
to 1898, mules pulled barges laden with anthracite coal along river valleys from Honesdale in northeastern
Pennsylvania to Eddyville on the Rondout Creek.
Eastern NY Reformatory. Now known as Eastern NY Correctional Facility. The old Covered Bridge
entrance to the Facility on the right spanning the Rondout Creek.
Left: Napanoch Rail Station. Located on The Eastern NY Correctional Facility grounds.
Right: Sketch of the Rail Station by William Winters.
Napanoch Railroad Station. Early 1900s
Old Trains like this ran the tracks of Napanoch during the early 1900s.
Former Oswego Midland locomotive #50, "Weehawken," a Baldwin product of 1872, is seen
with a work train in Kingston on November 22, 1902. The car immediately behind the engine
appears to be a flanger, possibly being used to regulate the ballast between the newly-laid
rails which completed the branch.
Headed for Napanoch but snowed in at Summetville, NY. Rail Station
Painting by William Winters