Wabash & Erie Canal

Trade and emigration route from Lake Erie to Evansville. Completed through Logansport 1840. Followed Erie Avenue and 5th Street, crossing Eel River by wooden aqueduct. Abandoned about 1876.

Marker is at the intersection of North 5th Street and North Street, on the left when traveling north on North 5th Street.

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