Miami and Erie Canal

Lock 13

Ohio Dept. Natural Resources

Division of Water

Miami and Erie Canal

Lock 13

.1 mile Lock 12 ->

Marker can be reached from East Spring Street (Route 29) near South Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling east.

The Miami & Erie Canal and New Bremen

Begun in 1833, the Miami Extension linked the Miami Canal in Dayton to the Wabash & Erie Canal at Junction. Engineering difficulties, epidemics and the Panic of 1837 delayed completion of the Extension until June 1845, when the packet boat ...