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| Preserve Madison Township posted Postcard featuring the Tytus Avenue, Middletown, Ohio, lift bridge. Postcard is dated circa 1900. The bridge crosses the Miami and Erie Canal at Tytus Avenue and is designed to lift to allow canal boats to safely pass under. George Crout used this image in the program titled "Miami-Erie Canal at Middletown" as slide No. 18 of 55. Text from the program reads: Take a closer look at a hoist bridge which once stood over the Canal between Main St. and Tytus. It was cut down and installed over the Hydraulic, being the one you crossed on the way to the Museum. The Miami and Erie Canal stretched from Cincinnati to Toledo and created a water route from the Ohio River to Lake Erie. Groundbreaking for the canal took place in Middletown on July 21, 1825. In 1845, work on the canal was completed. The rise of railroads eventually diminished the value of the canal, and it was officially closed on November 2, 1929, again in Middletown. With the canal’s closing, sections of the canal were filled in and converted into streets, while other sections became abandoned. In Middletown, what was once the canal became Verity Parkway. Middletown was also home to the Middletown Hydraulic Canal – a local canal used to supply water to Middletown’s early paper mills and industry, and the Warren County Canal – a canal that connected the Miami and Erie Canal to Lebanon. In addition to the Miami and Erie Canal, Ohio’s other prominent canal was the Ohio and Erie Canal constructed in the eastern part of the state. Douglas Butler shared Tytus Avenue Lift Bridge was removed Middletown, OH. |
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"The Canal Museum was erected in 1982 as a replica of a lock tender's house." [MiddletownHistoricalSociety]
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| Middletown Historical Society posted Tytus Avenue Bridge, Middletown Ohio, c. 1900 Publisher Fay, John T., druggest, Middletown; Norwood Souvenir Co., Cincinnati, O. Date c. 1900 Description: The Tytus Avenue bridge was one of several that crossed the Miami-Erie Canal. Since this is an electric hoist bridge, it must have been constructed near the end of the canal era. It was located on Tytus over what today is Verity Parkway, but was then the canal. Part of this bridge was moved to the Hydraulic Canal, and now provides a walkway to the Middletown Historical Society's Canal Museum. This is slide 39 of 80 used in the slide program titled "Canal Days - Miami-Erie Canal." The text reads: This type of bridge was at Tytus and the Canal, and known as a lift bridge, with the mechanism shown, lifting the whole bed of the bridge. Jeff Muohio: Can somebody tell me how the hydraulic canal got its name? Middletown Historical Society: Jeff Muohio In 1852, the Middletown Hydraulic Canal was an extension of the Miami and Erie Canal that supplied water and boat access to Middletown’s paper mills and industry. It was originally built and operated by the Middletown Hydraulic Company. When finished, the canal was 2.5 miles long. When the canal was built, it supplied water to power Middletown and its various industrial needs. The construction of the Hydraulic helped give rise to Middletown’s prominent paper industry. Eventually, electricity replaced the need for waterpower, diminishing the value of the hydraulic canal. In 1993, the state dam that provided water to the hydraulic canal broke, depriving it of water. At the time, the Sorg Paper Company and Aeronca were still using the canal for cooling purposes, while the City of Middletown was using it as a storm sewer. As of 2020, vestiges of the Hydraulic Canal still existed and were used for various sewer and wastewater purposes. Douglas Butler shared Tytus Avenue Lift Bridge is located in Middletown, OH credit to Middletown Historic Society. |
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