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community, a vibrant gathering place for holidays or rendezvous with friends. Nearly twenty years later, the Canal
Company prohibited the sale of alcohol at the tavern, and a year later, in 1849, ruled that the building should serve only as a lockhouse, actions probably intended to tone down its role as a social gathering place. In 1851 the north wing "Ball Room" became a grocery store, and in 1858 lockkeeper Henry Busey was permitted to re-open an ordinary (inn), to lodge guests," Gail Spilsbury wrote in 2010.
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