Canals on the National Register of Historic Places - Erie Canal, Illinois and Michigan Canal, Ohio and Erie Canal, Chenango Canal (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Erie Canal, Illinois and Michigan Canal, Ohio and Erie Canal, Chenango Canal, Delaware and Hudson Canal, Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, Schuylkill Canal, Pennsylvania Canal, Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation, Morris Canal, Delaware and Raritan Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Cascade Locks and Canal, Dismal Swamp Canal, Cumberland and Oxford Canal, Augusta Canal, Lockington Locks, Columbia Canal, Middlesex Canal, Lehigh Canal, Farmington Canal, Haulover Canal, Holyoke Canal System, Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal, Enfield Falls Canal, Glens Falls Feeder Canal, Lake Washington Ship Canal, Landsford Canal, Portage Canal, Champlain Canal, Miami and Erie Canal Deep Cut, Santee Canal, Potomac Canal Historic District, Mud Lake Canal, Turnbull Canal System, Lowell Locks and Canals Historic District, Franklin Canal. Excerpt: The Ohio Canal or Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed in the 1820s and early 1830s. It connected Akron, Summit County, with the Cuyahoga River near its mouth on Lake Erie in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth, Scioto County, and then connections to other canal systems in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The canal carried freight traffic from 1827 to 1861, when the arrival of railroads killed the market. From 1862 to 1913, the canal served as a water source to industries and towns. In 1913, much of the canal system was abandoned after critical sections were destroyed by flooding. Today, most of the remaining portions are managed by the National Park Service or Ohio Department of Natural Resources. They are used for various recreational purposes by the public, and still provide water for some industries. Parts of the canal are preserved, including the Ohio and Erie Canal Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landm...