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The Warren County Canal was a branch of the Miami and Erie Canal in southwestern Ohio about 20 miles (30 km) in length that connected the Warren County seat of Lebanon to the main canal at Middletown. Lebanon was at the crossroads of two major roads, the highway from Cincinnati to Columbus (later U.S. Route 42) and the road from Chillicothe to the College Township (Oxford), but Lebanon businessmen and civic leaders wanted better transportation facilities and successfully lobbied for their own canal, part of the canal fever of the first third of the 19th Century. Because of the low volume of traffic, the Warren County Canal was never successful, operating less than a decade before the state abandoned it.

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