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Title	Canal boat for parade
Subject	Canal-boats--United States Parades & processions--United States--1930-1940
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	Caption reads: "An accurate representation of the old canal boat, said to have been used in a parade in Cincinnati." During the late 1810s, Governor Thomas Worthington and Governor Ethan Allen Brown both supported internal improvements, especially canals. Both men believed that Ohioans needed quick and easy access to the Ohio River and to Lake Erie if they were to profit financially. In 1822, the Ohio legislature realized the importance of internal improvements and created a new Ohio Canal Commission. The Canal Commission eventually recommended a route starting at Lake Erie, passing through the Cuyahoga Valley, the Muskingum Valley, the Licking Valley, and then to the Ohio River along the Scioto Valley. The Commission also recommended a western route along the Miami and Maumee Valleys. By 1833, the Ohio and Erie Canal was complete, followed twelve years later by the Miami and Erie Canal. Once completed, thirty-three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties either had portions of canals running through them or quarries to mine rock for construction. The canals had many advantages to Ohioans. Most importantly, the cost to ship goods from the East Coast to Ohio and vice versa declined tremendously from 125 dollars per ton of goods to twenty-five dollars per ton of goods. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s, their demise due in part to competition from the much speedier railroads.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B02F07_008
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2009-08-10
Date modified	2010-05-10

Title	SA1039AV_B02F07_008_1
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B02F07_008_1.tif
Image Height	3952
Image Width	5993
File Size	71077376 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2009-08-10
Date modified	2009-08-10

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