another day, another walk in the park pt II (but still the same day)

[joebanks]

Lock 34 on the Ohio and Erie Canal C. 1825.






Looking at pieces of history like this and trying to imagine the activities that took place here. A lock would have been a busy location, requiring the presence of a keeper, maybe his family. Possibly a spot for trade and exchange of news as the boats waited their turn in the lock. The canal operated for almost a century and has been abandoned for more then that.












Canal towpath. On the upper left behind the pole is a bend in the Cuyahoga River that the canal runs parallel to. The canal just a shallow depression here is to the right. The lock is to the right behind me.

After i took these i remembered i once rode down a lock in a canoe. I took a couple pictures that i'll have to find.

Comments

I got a mule, her name is Sal..

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

That's a different canal! The Erie went east to west from I think? the Hudson River to Buffalo.

This one, the Ohio and Erie, ran from Cleveland south to the Ohio River; and it didn't have a song.

Yes it is haunting - the works of man.

[rafqa.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.

*hangs head*

I thought it seemed kind of, diverted.

It's not too late for it to have a song, though!

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we could sing it on either canal. There is a tourist canal boat that runs a section of the canal farther south of here. I'm sure they sing something on those trips.

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