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== History ==

===A private company begins===

[[Image:DeWittClinton.jpeg|thumb|left|Governor [[ThomasDeWitt SchwarzClinton]] of New York, who gave Warren County "canal fever" when he visited in 1829.]]

The Miami and Erie Canal was authorized by the [[Ohio General Assembly]] in [[1825]]. Work began that same year and the canal was navigable from the [[Ohio River]] at [[Cincinnati]] to Middletown in December [[1827]]. By April [[1830]], it was open to [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]]. (The entire length to [[Lake Erie]] at [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]] opened in [[1845]].) [[New York State|New York]] [[Governor of New York|Governor]] [[DeWitt Clinton]], who was the driving force behind his state's [[Erie Canal]], came to [[Ohio]] in [[1829]] for the groundbreaking ceremonies of the [[Miami and Erie Canal]], which were held in Middletown. On his trip to the Buckeye State, he visited Lebanon, staying at the [[Golden Lamb Inn]]. The village's inhabitants caught the "canal fever" of the day and demanded they too have access to the new waterway. The State quickly obliged.