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The Miami and Erie Canal, known as the Ohio Rhineland. The Miami and Erie Canal was a 274-mile (441 km) canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. [1] Construction on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1845 at a cost to the state government of $8 million ($262 million ...
The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with access from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Over 460 miles long, it was the longest canal ever built in North America. The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and ...
1978-12-18 [ 1] Miami–Erie Canal Site Historic District is a registered historic district on the Miami and Erie Canal near West Chester, Ohio. The district consists of Lock #38 on the canal, the house used by the lock's gatekeeper, and several foundation sites from demolished canal-related buildings. The limestone lock was built in 1825-26 as ...
Whitewater Canal. Coordinates: 39°27′33″N 85°06′34″W. Whitewater Canal (Metamora, Indiana) The Whitewater Canal, which was built between 1836 (188 years ago) and 1847 (177 years ago), spanned a distance of 76 miles (122 km) and stretched from Lawrenceburg, Indiana on the Ohio River to Hagerstown, Indiana near the West Fork of the ...
Warren County Canal. Coordinates: 39°30′55.7″N 84°24′08.6″W. A sketch of a canalboat by Herbert Fall from circa 1840, about the time the canal operated. The Warren County Canal was a branch of the Miami and Erie Canal in southwestern Ohio about 20 miles (32 km) in length that connected the Warren County seat of Lebanon to the main ...
April 2: Lucas and the Ohio line-runners arrive in Perrysburg. April 3: Rush and Howard (President Jackson's commissioners) reached Toledo. Both Ohio and Michigan had already created a situation for war. April 4: Michigan residents proceeded to the polls to elect delegates for the constitutional convention in May.
1922, 102 years ago City buys canal land. Utica Mayor Fred Douglas and members of the Common Council agree to buy from the state for $500,000 the abandoned old Erie Canal strip of land that runs ...
Designated NHL. October 9, 1960 [2] Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, and a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long part of the Erie Canal, in the towns of Glen and Florida within Montgomery County, New York.