CANAL TOWN (HARDCOVER) ~ BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS 1944. The cover has discoloration on the front and back. The pages have yellowed and there is foxing. 

The novel is set in the 1820s in the town of Palmyra, New York, near Rochester, located on the Erie Canal. The novel opens in 1820, when the construction of the Erie Canal had just begun, but has not reached Palmyra, and most of the town is looking forward to the economic boom the Canal is expected to bring.