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Hazel
River
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had been completed and there was only a very little bit of dredging and embankment remaining to put the whole canal in working order.
The third blow to the Hazel River Navigation Company was its final one: completion of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad into Culpeper Courthouse in January, 1853, took away any remaining interest in navigation. The company didn’t even turn in an annual report for 1855 and in 1856 reported that “Our improvement may be considered abandoned, at least for the present.” And then later, in 1857: “The improvement is in a hopeless state of decay and dilapidation, and I see no prospect of it ever being repaired.”
The reporter’s prediction came true, says Trout. Since 1850 the Hazel River Navigation Company had spent $105,000 to make 20 miles of river navigable for a couple of years with a total income from tolls of $681.42. Back country farmers gave up forever the dream of shipping their goods by river on down to the bay.
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