I&M Canal: Lock #13 and Split Rock

Lock: (Satellite)

Split Rock: (Satellite, the old tunnel has been overgrown by trees)

 

Larry E. Bird posted
The house at Lock 13 1900 roof line was east an west with two brick stacks.

Christie Pasieka posted two images with the comment:

Lock 13

Story of Lock 13

I have been creating a series of art pieces of history no longer standing, this is one of them below.

Don Lavotny: As a kid in the 1960s I remember riding my bicycle along the towpath east from LaSalle and finding the abutments which must have once been lock 13. At the time I had no clue what it was for.

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Christie's post
Could someone drop a pin on a map and share the URL for the location of this lock? Not even the Illinois Department of Natural Resources knows where the lock is.   https://dnr.illinois.gov/.../doc.../imcanalwesthuntermap.pdf

Christie Pasieka: Dennis DeBruler right about where the 93 is in the map.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Christie's comment

Thanks. Judging from this 1937 aerial photo, https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../0bwy03036.jpg, it was about a third of the way from the creek crossing to Split Rock. I wonder why they built a dam and flooded the lock.

 https://maps.app.goo.gl/m7Laigim9XGUG3hQA

Flooding the lock with a dam explains why the canal is so wide at the lock in Joe Balynas' Flickr photo.

Andy Zukowski posted four photos with the comment: "I&M Canal Lock 13 Photos from years past."

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Andy Zukowski posted
Split Rock looking East…you can see the CO&P Interurban's right of way going up the grade to the top of split rock. It turned right at the top and crossed over the tunnel and canal. 1934-35

Andy Zukowski posted four photos with the comment: "Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria RR (interurban line) built in 1903 & removed after 1934, Illinois & Michigan Canal, LaSalle Illinois."

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