Ohio's Grand Canal: A Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal

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111 Board of Canal Commissioners. See also Board of Public Works; Canal Commission: dedication and skill of, 43–45; goals of, 44; make up of, 42; Ohio legislature’s relations with, 43, 47; pay for, 42–43; resistance to early expansion of system, 44–45; setting up engineering corps, 43 Board of Canal Fund Commissioners, 43, 45. See also Funding, for canal building Board of Public Works. See also Board of Canal Commissioners; Canal Commission: abolished, 52; asking legislature for funds to expand and improve canals, 26, 28; Canal Commission reorganized and renamed back to, 47; canal maintenance and, 26, 29; changed to supervisor of public works, 66; declining quality of administration by, 47–48; influence of politics and patronage on, 47–48; makeup of, 51; managing leases, 51, 54, 62; mixed messages about future of Ohio Canal from, 65; public opinion of, 43–44, 48; rebuilding locks, 28; reorganized and renamed back to Canal Commission, 47; taking canal system back from lessees, 51, 58; taking over canal survey commission tasks, 52; trying to interest federal government in ship canal, 60 Boatmen, 20; canal families as, 62–63, 65, 91–93; considered elite profession, 21; life on the Ohio Canal for, 91–93; out of business during rebuilding, 62–63, 65; ownership by, 20, 92 Boats, 86; builders going out of business, 27; built in anticipation of opening of Ohio Canal , 16–17, 20; canal dredge boats, 82; cargo capacity of, 19–22, 25, 79; crews of, 21–22; Agriculture. See also Produce, as freight: effects of harvest size, 29–30, 49 Akron: benefits of canal to, 65, 89; boat families staying in Lower Basin, 92; boatyards in, 55; building over Ohio Canal in, 72–73, 76–77; canal right-of-way through, 72, 74; cargos for canal at, 28; Cascade area of, 32; Cascades Locks Park Organization in, 77; locks dynamited in flood of 1913, 68–69; Market Street Bridge, 33; state leasing office located in, 75; Summit Lake in, 11, 63; uses of canal in, 71, 74–76; watered section of canal in, 11, 74, 76–77 Akron Summit, proposal to lower for ship canal, 60 Allen Trimble, in inaugural flotilla, 16–17 Animals: used for towing, 22, 25, 59; used in construction of Ohio Canal, 13–14 Aqueducts: Circleville, 18; construction of, 9; flood damage to, 17, 60; Newark, 39; none at Roscoe, 65; Perkins’s proposal to improve, 61–63; Raccoon Creek, 60; Walhonding, 17, 38 Athens, Hocking Canal to, 57 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 88 Barberton: canal section from Akron to, 77; canals providing water for industries south of, 71, 74–75 Black Hand Gorge State Nature Preserve, 77 Black Hand Narrows, feeder dam rebuilt at, 55 Black River Valley, Ohio Canal leaving Lake Erie via, 5 Blacklick Park (Lockville), 77 Blakes Mills (present-day south New Philadelphia ), 11   Index 112 index Boats (cont.) design of, 21–23, 25–26; determination of precedence of, 21–22; houseboats, 40; line, 20–21, 91; lost during rebuilding hiatus, 62, 65; number operating on Ohio Canal, 20, 22; ownership of, 20, 92; packets’ express service, 21–23, 25; “party” boats, 61, 63, 80; pleasure boats, 18; readied for inaugural trips on canal, 16–17; replicas built, 76; rush to build during Civil War, 55; size of, 7–8, 20, 25; state boats, 58–59, 81; three-cabin freighters, 26–27, 34, 35, 59, 92; two-deck grain boats, 39, 40; two-deckers, 21 Boatyards, 27, 55, 63, 67, 80 Bolivar, in flood of 1913, 67 Bonds: for expansion of canal system, 50; for Ohio Canal construction, 9, 16; for public works lease, 53 Boston, Ohio, 55 Brecksville, 71, 76 Bridgeport, National Road near, 28 Brown, Ethan Allen, 3 Building materials, for Ohio Canal: donation of, 44; for locks, 13; quality of, 8–9, 26; use of concrete in rehabilitation, 62–63 Caldersburg (in present-day Coshocton), 18 Canada Mill, 34 Canal Act of 1825, 5, 44 Canal Commission. See also Board of Canal Commissioners; Board of Public Works: Board of Public Works reorganized and renamed back to, 47; bond sales and, 9, 16; choosing canal route, 4–7, 19; formation of, 3; make up of, 47; objectives of, 6, 9; preparing for construction, 9–11; reorganized and renamed back to Board of Public Works, 47; surveys by, 3–4; working with engineers, 3–4, 6, 9–11 Canal Dover, 36; benefits of canal to, 80, 90; flood damage to, 62, 67 Canal families: life on the Ohio Canal for, 91...