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	Miami & Erie Canal
		The peak of the Miami and Erie Canal at the "Loramie Summit" extended 21 miles from Lock 1-N in New Bremen Ohio to lock 1-S in Lockington north of Piqua, Oh The entire canal system was 301.49 miles long and cost $8,062,680.07.
		During the construction of the Miami and Erie Canal, it was a center of disease, and drunken violence.
		A third major canal was proposed in central Ohio in addition to the Miami and Erie Canal on the west side of the state, and the Ohio and Erie Canal on the east side of the state.
	www.grandlake.webdesignresults.com /canal.htm (621 words)

	My Scrapbook
		Notices, such as this one for a boat that operated on the Ohio and Erie Canal, were common on the Miami and Erie Canal.
		Many canal boats were built, but as the railroads came into more and more use it became possible to obtain a canal boat, especially one needing repair, for little money.
		The canal had been very important in the development of Middletown but by 1900 there was little need, except for water power, for the canal.
	worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /OMP/YourScrapbook?scrapid=9744 (857 words)

	Canal Operations; shelby county ohio historical society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The entire canal system, including the Miami and Erie Canal, was operated by workers employed by the state.
		Canal families spent years on the canal, with children attending school only when the boat tied up in the winter when travel was impossible.
		The life of the canalers in the summer was a monotonous grind of passing through mile after mile of algae-covered canal waters, spiced from time to time by stops in villages such as Lockington.
	www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/canal/canaloperation.htm (376 words)

	North Country Trail Focus: St. Marys - Minster, OH
		The Miami-Erie Canal Corridor Authority (MECCA), headquartered in St. Mary's is a local group that is working to preserve the traces of the Miami and Erie Canal in the area.
		The 40-mile Miami and Erie Canal Trail was the first state recreational trail be be designated under the Ohio Trails Act, and is administered by the Ohio DNR, Division of Parks and Recreation.
		The canal towpath trail north of St. Mary's was discussed in the October-December 1997 North Star.
	www.northcountrytrail.org /explore/focus/ohcanal2.htm (958 words)

	MCHS - Research & Resources::History At A Glance::Dayton's Fifth River
		In 1825, the state congress passed a law authorizing a canal to be built from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, a part of which would pass through Dayton.
		Building a canal in the early nineteenth century proved to be a large undertaking and required huge amounts of money and manpower.
		Almost immediately, the canal transformed Dayton from an isolated settlement on the edge of the wilderness into a thriving regional center of transportation.
	www.daytonhistory.org /glance_fifth.htm (625 words)

	Ohio Hiking Trails: Miami and Erie Canal
		The Ohio Trails Act formed this 40 mile hiking section of the Miami and Erie Canal Towpath Hiking Trails.
		Various forms of Ohio canal history such as canal locks, aqueducts, and a canal boat add to this section of the Ohio Buckeye Hiking Trails, which parallels State Route 66 from Delphos, Ohio, to Fort Loramie.
		Hiking distances for Miami and Erie Canal trails, are roughly:
	www.hiking.ohiotrail.com (370 words)

	Wabash and Erie Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Miami and Erie Canal continued south to locks at Loveland, Ohio, where canalboats continued down the Great Miami River to the Ohio River.
		Even when canal boats were operated at extremely slow speeds, the banks rapidly eroded, and the canal had to be constantly dredged to be operable.
		Terre Haute, Indiana, housed the headquarters of the canal from 1847 through 1876, when the canal lands were sold at an auction conducted by resident trustee Thomas Dowling at the Vigo County Court House.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wabash_and_Erie_Canal (517 words)

	Miami & Erie Canal - OH
		This hand-dug canal had long since overgrown with vegetation and trees, but race organizers had worked hard to clear the 6-mile stretch that would be used during the race.
		While the canal was primarily cleared by organizers there were still several locations when careful paddle placement and observant water reading helped to navigate downed trees and submerged obstructions.
		The canal can be paddled thoughout the year, and the additional high water helped, but I don't want to give people the impression that the canal is "always" paddlable.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?1386 (1962 words)

	Ohio and Erie Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed in the early 1800s and connected the Ohio River at Portsmouth and Lake Erie at Cleveland, Ohio.
		As a result, the canal was divided into two sections, the Ohio and Erie Canal from Cleveland to Portsmouth which crossed the Licking Divide and followed the Scioto River Valley, and the Miami and Erie Canal which connected Cincinnati to Dayton.
		The section of the Ohio and Erie Canal from the Brecksville Dam to Rockside Road in Cuyahoga County was transferred to the National Park Service in 1989 as part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreational Area (now known as the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ohio_and_Erie_Canal (1647 words)

	Flesh Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		This canal was built to connect Buffalo and Lake Erie with a direct water route to New York City.
		They also supported the Miami and Erie Transportation Company in their attempt to lay tracks and pull the canal boats by means of an electric “mule”.
		In 1972, the Ohio Historical Society reopened a mile-long section of the canal at the Johnston Farm.
	www.piqua.lib.oh.us /WebSite/localhistory/lhcanal.htm (663 words)

	Ohio's Historic Canals, Canal Society Of Ohio
		Canal bed and locks are visible along Three Locks Road SE from US 23, 3 miles S of Chillicothe.
		The Miami and Erie Trail, a 40-mile long section of the old towpath, extends southward from Delphos to Lake Loramie State Park.
		Four-mile hiking trail along water-filled canal from Geiger Park N through St. Marys and the St. Marys River valley to Forty Acre Pond, a widewater of the canal.
	my.ohio.voyager.net /~lstevens/canal (1175 words)

	Great Miami River Recreation Trail - Section 1
		The first section of the trail opened June 2003 on a 1.6 mile section that follows the old Miami and Erie Canal (Brochure) that was built from Toledo to Cincinnati during 1825-1840.
		There is a railroad line West of the trail and the area between the old canal and the railroad bed was full of wildflowers when we walked the trail.
		The canal is on the West side of the trail.
	www.miamivalleytrails.org /miami_county_trail.htm (1598 words)

	Canals
		Susquehanna Canal, and a Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
		Seneca and Cauga lakes to the Erie Canal.
		River (in Pennsylvania) with the Ohio and Erie Canal at Bolivar, Ohio.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canals.html (7512 words)

	Lake Erie Coastal Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Lake Erie provided a means of transportation in the early 1800s, but only for those who were able to make it to its shore.
		Work began on the Miami & Erie Canal in 1825, however, the canal was not first intended to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio River.
		Admission to the canal boat is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors age 60 and older, $2 for children age 12 and under, and free for those two years of age and younger.
	www.coastalohio.com /site.asp?id=118 (475 words)

	North Country Trail Focus: Miami & Ohio Canal
		For the canal enthusiast, the path south from here is probably the more interesting part of this walk, with many old structures, interesting hydrology and more sylvan walking than to the north.
		Again, the trail departs the towpath to follow a paralleling street through the village (Canal Street, again), past several foot bridges over the watered canal, and past the remains of a canal lock with a historical marker, and rejoins the towpath at Wiltshire Rd., on the south end of the village.
		From this vicinity, the canal is used as a canoe route to a feeder canal south of St. Mary's, and on to Grand Lake.
	www.northcountrytrail.org /explore/focus/ohcanal1.htm (1346 words)

	11-05-02: Auglaize County - New canal park studied
		Nick Van Schoyck, director of the St. Marys Chamber of Commerce, who also is a member of the Miami and Erie Canal Corridor Association (MECCA), talked with members of the Lake Development Corporation (LDC) during the LDC meeting on Monday.
		When the canal was used for trade and transportation between 1845 to the early 1900s, the locks were used to control the water level in the canal so the canal boats could float and be raised or lowered to the next level.
		The canal is not level and slopes either downhill or uphill depending on the route of travel.
	www.dailystandard.com /date/2002/11/05/news/headline2.htm (475 words)

	St. Marys, Ohio Miami and Erie Canal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Miami and Erie Canal, which was constructed for transportation, and with the aid of two canal locks, lowered that waterway to an e medium middle elevation.
		The Saint Marys Ohio hydraulic canal was a water way which split from the Miami and Erie Canal prior Lock 12 and 13 with the Hydraulic remaining at a high elevation.
		Industry used to water from the Hydraulic to power water wheels for factories with belt driven equipment prior to the expanded use of steam boilers or the use of electric motors.
	www.hiking.ohiotrail.com /st.marys/index.htm (184 words)

	Wabash and Erie Canal
		Wabash and Erie Canal is a waterway, stretching up to 468 miles from Toledo, Ohio to Evansville, Indiana.
		The canal was instrumental in the growth of the State of Indiana.
		The main goal behind the construction of the canal was to link the navigable water of the Maumee River with the Wabash through the seven mile portage at Fort Wayne.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2565.html (498 words)

	Delphos
		At present the towpath is being maintained (or not, as the case may be) by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, and is marked by nice wooden posts proclaiming the distances to the next locks and other sights along the route.
		The Miami and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825-1845 and extended 249 miles from Toledo on Lake Erie to Cincinnati on the Ohio River.
		The canal itself was 4 feet in depth and 40 feet wide at water level.
	members.aol.com /touringohio/Delphos.htm (303 words)

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		Indian Lake was constructed as a water feeder for the Cincinnati-Toledo canal, known as the Miami and Erie waterway, which ran north and south, transversing Putnam County to the west of Findlay and Hancock County.
		Before the canal's development, they had to follow the Blanchard to the Auglaize in western Putnam County and the Auglaize and Maumee rivers on to Toledo.
		So 50 miles east of the canal, the Miami River was dammed near its source to form another body of water, known in canal days as the Lewistown Reservoir.
	www.thecourier.com /opinion/Historic/RL091099.htm (738 words)

	Old Miami Canal Print (Ohio Miami and Erie Canal System) - PIC-100706 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Miami Canal was an essential part of the Ohio canal system built between 1825 to 1848.
		As part of the Miami and Erie Canal, it operated from Cincinnati (the Ohio River) to Middletown by 1828 and to Dayton by 1830.
		This blue-, white-, and fl-toned print, entitled "Shadows on the Miami Canal", is of a tree-lined scene from the old Miami Canal and shows the serenity of the waterway.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/poeticmemories/item/PIC-100706 (402 words)

	Canal Mania in Indiana
		Canal construction begins on Kentucky side at Falls of the Ohio, killing canal project on Indiana side; completed 1831; New York's Erie Canal opens; Stockton and Darlington, world's first railroad for general transportation, begins in England.
		Miami and Erie Canal completed from Cincinnati to Dayton.
		Floods cause $100,000 damage to Whitewater Canal and repairs from flood in 1848 are $80,000; Hagerstown Canal Company completes Whitewater Canal from Cambridge City to Hagerstown; Madison and Indianapolis Railroad completed.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/publications/tlcanal.html (488 words)

	Tipp Ciy Trail
		It is called "Canal Lock" park because there is a dry lock from old Miami and Erie Canal at the West end of the park.
		As can be seen from this photo the trail is adjacent to the Miami Conservancy District levee that protects the city from the Miami River to the right of this photo.
		There is a plaque in the park that tells that the Miami and Erie Canal ran through the area.
	www.miamivalleytrails.org /tipp.htm (914 words)

	Large Boats to ply between Great Lakes, Ohio River
		The widening of the canal will naturally have some affect upon the business section of Delphos, but no information as to the additional space required will be taken from the east side or the west side of the canal.
		She was built for service on the Ohio canal 35 years ago, and nearly 30 years ago was brought to the Miami and Erie Canal.
		Mayor Williams read to Council a letter received from the engineer of the Canal Land Dept., at Columbus stating that the request for the use of state land, under lease by Dolbey and Morton, is granted for street purposes by the Board of Public Works, good for 15 years, at an annual rental of $15.
	www.delphos-ohio.com /history/Holdgreve/Boats.htm (2418 words)

	Rotary District 6600
		The Miami and Erie Canal, traversing 249 miles from Cincinnati to Toledo, was begun on July 25, 1825 near Middletown.
		Structures on the canal included 19 aqueducts, three guard locks, 103 lift locks, three major reservoirs, and “Deep Cut” that was 6,600 feet long and 52-feet deep.
		The peak year for the Miami and Erie Canal was 1851, with revenues of $351,897 and approximately 400 boats in operation.
	www.rotarydistrict6600.org /whats_new.shtml?f=578 (607 words)

	Providence Metropark and the Isaac Ludwig Mill
		In 1845 the Miami and Erie Canal stretched through the Northwest corner of Ohio providing transportation and improved commerce to the settlers of the desolate Black Swamp region.
		Powered by water from the Miami and Erie Canal, the mill produced flour, meal, and livestock feed for the nearby town of Providence.
		Cleo Ludwig, descendants of Isaac Ludwig in 1972, and donated to the Metropark District.
	users.ipfw.edu /zeppp/Nature/provid.html (267 words)

	Providence Metropark & The Canal Experience -Metroparks of the Toledo Area
		Canal boats once carried goods and people 249 miles between Toledo and Cincinnati, linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River.
		Visitors to Providence today get a sense of what canal travel was like during a trip aboard an authentic, mule-drawn canal boat on an original section of the Miami and Erie Canal.
		Canal boat tickets: $6 adults, $5 members and seniors (60 and over), $3 children (3 to 12), ages two and under free.
	www.metroparkstoledo.com /metroparks/providence (255 words)

	Erie Canal
		The Erie Canal, which linked the waters of Lake Erie and the Hudson River, was completed in 1825.
		The canal's use was diminished by competition from the less expensive railroad, and is used mainly by recreational boaters today.
		The original canal was 363 miles long, 40 feet wide and four feet deep.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1818.html (489 words)

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