In 1834, they formed the Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal Co. In 1836, Darius Lapham designed a route that would travel 25 miles from Harrison to Cincinnati, with three locks, two aqueducts ...

The Miami & Erie Canal was not the only canal serving Cincinnati. The Cincinnati & Whitewater Canal was completed in 1843 and connected Cincinnati to Indiana’s Whitewater Canal near Harrison. This ...

The Cincinnati-Whitewater Canal was a spur off the main canal in Indiana, to bring commerce to and from the city. The canal on top would have been made of wood. Agricola said the Indianapolis and ...

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In times long gone, travelers made their way along the Whitewater Canal on horse- or mule-pulled barges. It was, in the mid-1800s, a way for merchants and farmers to transport ...

part of the Wabash and Erie Canal and a section of the Whitewater Canal. The bill authorized the state government to borrow millions of dollars, an enormous sum for 1836, to implement the ...

Hence the Whitewater Canal, begun in 1836 and finished 10 years later, connecting Hagerstown, Ind. to Cincinnati, a 101-mile trip. But the mania for building canals in Indiana was short-lived.