Canal Winchester and the Ohio and Erie Canal

[Marker Front]:

You are standing on the site of Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal helped to open the interior of Ohio to trade and settlement and played a part in Winchester's prosperity during the mid-1800s. Local farmers exported grain from ...

The Ohio & Erie Canal and the "Twin Cities" / The Ohio & Erie Ca

The Ohio & Erie Canal and the "Twin Cities"

On this site the Ohio & Erie Canal flowed south and down-level under the Market Street Bridge. Nearby Pawpaw Creek and the canal culturally divided the Swiss settlers to the west ...

Junction of the Ohio Erie and Lancaster Lateral Canals

Canals were an important means of transportation when Carroll was founded in 1829 by William Tong and his brother Oliver, who chose this site because it was where the proposed intersection of the Lancaster Lateral Canal and Ohio-Erie Canal would ...

Erie Canal

Completed 1825 Terminus at

Hudson River. Locks called

Sidecut allowed entry to

navigable waters

Marker is at the intersection of 2nd Avenue (New York Route 32) and Twenty-Third Street, on the right when traveling north on 2nd Avenue.

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The Erie Canal

Power Canal Park | Cohoes NY

The Erie Canal flowed through Cohoes along two distinct paths during the 19th century. The first phase, 1825-1841, is commonly referred to as "Clinton's Ditch" after New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, who was the foremost ...

Erie Canal

Canal Dug in 1822 and

enlarged in 1842.

Remains of both canals are

evident. Opened from

Albany to Buffalo, 1825.

Marker is on Riverview Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Erie Canal

Albany to Buffalo

Begun 1817, completed 1825. Enlarged 1850's and early 1900's. This section opened 1822, making Pittsford an active commercial port.

Marker is on North Main Street 0.2 miles from Monroe Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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Wabash and Erie Canal Groundbreaking

On February 22, 1832, ground was broken two blocks north for the canal, which would link Lake Erie at Toledo with the Ohio River at Evansville. Jordan Vigus, Canal Commissioner, Charles W. Ewing, Samuel Hanna, Elias Murray participated in the ...

Erie Extension Canal

Route of travel and trade, Pittsburgh to Great Lakes, 1840-1871. Important to the western Pennsylvania iron industry before the rise of the railroads. Lock #10, a guard lock, represents the only remaining canal lock.

Marker is on E. High Street Extension, ...

Erie Extension Canal

Part of the old channel lies near the highway. The Conneaut Line, from Erie to near Conneaut Lake, was begun by the State, 1838, and completed by the Erie Canal Company, 1843-44. Canal in use until 1871.

Marker is at the ...