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On July 3, 1827, the first canal boat on the Ohio and Erie Canal left Akron, traveled through 41 locks and over 3 aqueducts along 37 miles (60 km) of canal, to arrive at Cleveland on July 4. While the average speed of 3 mph (5 km/h) may seem slow, canal boats could carry 10 tons of goods and were much more efficient than wagons over rutted trails.
The Warren County Canal was a spur of the Miami and Erie Canal to Lebanon, the county seat of Warren County, Ohio. The Ohio and Erie Canal in 1902. Following is a list of historic canals that were once used for transportation in Ohio. Hocking Canal - Branch of Ohio and Erie Canal; Miami and Erie Canal; Ohio and Erie Canal; Pennsylvania and Ohio ...
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The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".
"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1898, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
In the 1900s, the state of Ohio flooded valleys to create a feeder for the Ohio Erie canal. [4] The waterlogged sponge surrounding the cranberry bog created a new water level. Instead of the bog mat disappearing under the water, it grew to be a 50-acre island bog.
Side Cut Metropark is a regional park in Maumee, Ohio, owned and managed by Metroparks Toledo and named for being a sidecut on the Miami and Erie Canal. [5] The sidecut was built over an 18-year period in the nineteenth century and completed in 1842, opening to boat traffic the following year.