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Just past the bridge, a sign welcomes visitors to Cavallo. The only problem is, when you get there, there isn’t much there there.
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It’s no surprise that a century-and-a-half past its glory days, there’s not much left in Cavallo. Just a handful of buildings remain to offer a clue that Cavallo was once a notoriously rowdy canal town.
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The bridge across the Mohican River that leads into what remains of Cavallo. The bridge is officially named after U.S. Army soldier Harold P. Warner, who was killed in action May 7, 1942.
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The exact date of this photograph, taken from the hillside overlooking the river on the west side of the Mohican River shows Cavallo still sporting numerous buildings, even though its busy days were already long past.
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The red ‘X’ marks the spot—now only a low-lying area in the woods—where the Walhonding Canal originally ran beside the river. The towpath just beyond it later became the bed of the Walhonding Valley Railroad, which was discontinued in 1936 when the Mohawk Dam was built.
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