Friday, November 15, 2024

1854-1913 Five Miami & Erie Canal Locks in Lockington, OH

(Satellite, 204 photos)

These five locks raised the Miami & Erie Canal 67' (20.4m) to the highest point on the canal between Cincinnati and Toledo.

These are the top two locks.
Street View, Sep 2024

This clearing allows us to not only see those top two locks, but part of the hill that the canal had to climb. The upper lock is obvious on the right side of the view. We can see only part of the far wall of the lower lock on the left side.
Street View, Sep 2024

Jim Kerste, May 2023

This photo and the above plaque clued me into the fact that there are more than just the two locks we can see from the streets.
Nathan Brown, Apr 2022

The three lower locks are lost in the shadows in the current (Nov 2024) satellite map. So I fired up Google Earth. We can clearly see all five locks in this image.
Google Earth, Nov 2021

The cartographer omitted the uppermost lock.
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