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| Canal Society of Indiana posted Dam # 6 on the Whitewater Canal This dam backed up water that was diverted into the Connersville feeder canal. The feeder introduced these waters into the main Whitewater canal. The dam was destroyed by locals in 1950's View is East looking West Location is off Interstate Road south of Milton Photo - R Schmidt |
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| Canal Society of Indiana posted Veiw of Dam # 6 on Whitewater River in Apr 2010 Center structure is a fish ladder The dam was dynamited on the left side of photo Photo - R Schmidt |
This is the only dam I found on the river south of Milton when looking all the way down to Connersville. One can see the fish ladder in the satellite image.
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I thought Google's label was on the feeder canal and the main canal was the straight lines along the left side of this extract. But I, and the "feeder canal" caption above, were wrong. After checking some topo maps, I saw that the dam was more than a feeder dam. The boats used the slack pool of this dam and then...
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| Satellite plus Paint |
...headed out across land again just upstream of the dam.
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| Satellite plus Paint |
The railroad that still existed in 1960 was the Lake Erie & Western component of the Nickle Plate. The abandoned railroad was the Big Four component of the NYC.
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| 1960 Cambridge City and Jacksonburg and 1956 Connersville and Brownsville Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
My father, Mark Schambers, owns that land and it’s absolutely beautiful back there! The land has been in our family for years.
ReplyDeleteI used to go back there as a child 40 years ago, always loved it back there..Swimming and fishing with my father..
DeleteBeen in our family for years and hope it stays in our family for many more to come it's absolutely beautiful little slice of paradise
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