Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/11

• ... that the Delaware and Hudson Canal (pictured) was the first American business with a million-dollar market capitalization?
• ... that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram?
• ... that the Walter Hand House, in Cornwall, New York, was built in 1870 to serve as both a farmhouse and a tourist boarding house?