Saturday, January 9, 2016

Ohio & Erie (O&E) Canal Locks #37 & #38, Tinkers Creek Aqueduct and 1853 Wilson Feed Mill

If you are here because of "NS/NYC's Kankakee Bridge," then you need to go there.

#37 and Feed Mill: (Satellite)
Tinkers Creek Aqueduct: (Satellite)
#38: (Satellite, it is a trailhead for the towpath trail.)


Lock #38 looking upstream (South):
Street View, Sep 2011

Looking downstream. The bridge in the upper-left corner is the location of the above street view.
ebreedon, Aug 2022

Lock #37 is just downstream from a feed mill.
Satellite

HAER OHIO,18-VAVI,6-
2. GENERAL VIEW OF LOCK CHAMBER AND GATES, CONCRETE-WORK DATES FROM CANAL'S RECONSTRUCTION IN 1905-06. THE POPULAR NAME, '14 MILE LOCK', IS DERIVED FROM THE LOCK'S LOCATION 14 MILES SOUTH OF CLEVELAND - Ohio & Erie Canal, Lock No. 37, At Canal & Fitzwater Roads, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, OH Photos from Survey HAER OH-59-B

The feed mill was built to use the change in water elevation that required a lock. It was common for the mills to buy water from the canal.
Street View, Aug 2022

Natha B, Apr 2023

Nathan B, Apr 2023

Brenda Krekeler, Apr 2018
[I'm glad no one removed the line shafts for scrap metal.]

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