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The scene isn't invented from whole cloth — it's a commercial artist's rendering of a real and pivotal moment in the founding of the American government

not given to unnecessary flourish — is threaded through every piece of commerce that came out of the Southern Tier in the century that followed

the canal era was giving way to the railroad era and then the industrial manufacturing era

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