M&E Feeder Canal and St. Ate Diversion Dam on Great Miami River near Port jefferson, OH

Dam: (Satellite, it has been washed out)

Feeder Canal Headwaters: (Satellite)

Feeder Canal: (Satellite, the algae on the stagnant water makes it easy to identify.)

M&E = Miami & Erie Canal

I discovered this feeder canal while studying the B&O bridge over the Great Miami River and River Road.

Satellite

From that Canal Feeder Park, I followed the canal upstream until I found the diversion dam.

1913/34 Sidney Quad @ 62,500

Some of this feeder canal is now part of the Canal Feeder Trail.

Christy Leigh Wilkins, Dec 2022

In the Lockington area, there is more left of this feeder canal than there is of the original canal. I marked where the canal leaves the Great Miami River Valley and heads west to provide water for the five locks in Lockington.

Satellite

As the canal went downstream along the river from the diversion dam, it climbed a bluff so that it would be on top of the bluff where it then heads west to Lockington.

1914/31 Troy Quad @ 62,500