After years of dwindling use, the Miami and Erie Canal came to an end in the early 1900s. The canal beds were made available for public highways in 1927, and cities channeled them into thoroughfares.

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 ...

Providence Metropark: Historic Canal Experience. Special | 25m 16s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Enjoy a short trip on the historic Miami & Erie Canal near Toledo. Join us for a trip on the ...

Northwest Ohio historic canal experience gives visitors a look at one of the last functional limestone locks, a mule-drawn boat, ... featuring life on the Miami and Erie Canal.

The Miami and Erie Canal is considered ‘the original highway system’ and was built in the 1820′s. Skip to content. 13abc Marketplace. Contests. Home Giveaway. Community Calendar.

"The Miami & Erie Canal (through western Ohio) covered more than 270 miles from Toledo to Cincinnati. The entire system, including main and feeder canals, was roughly 1,000 miles." ...

The Miami Erie Canal divided an early industrial section of Dayton. On the left, N.B. Brown & Co., a manufacturer of carriage parts for streetcars and trains, the Dayton Dyeing Company and a ...

To understand the significance of the Miami & Erie Canal and the hydraulic canal that followed, you just have to look at Middletown’s 1820 census. At the time there were 312 people living in ...

Having seen the success of the Erie Canal and its impact on New York state, Ohio had undertaken its own canal building projects in 1825, with the Miami & Erie Canal linking Cincinnati with Lake Erie.

Shaped by trading via the Miami Erie Canal in the 1800s, this unique district thrives. The Toledo Warehouse District is a premier urban neighborhood that packs businesses, homes, restaurants, a ...