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Title	Erie Canal Account
Subject	Transportation Geography and Natural Resources Canals Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
Place	Akron (Ohio) Summit County (Ohio) New York
Description	Richard Howe, an engineer for the Ohio and Erie Canal, kept this notebook while traveling through New York on the Erie Canal. Included are his observations of the canal and sketches of the locks. The account is 12 pages and measures 5" x 9" (12.7 x 22.86 cm). Engineer Richard Howe (1799-1872) became one of the first settlers of Akron in 1829. Born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, he came to Ohio in 1812 with his widowed mother and six brothers and sisters. They settled at Franklinton, near Columbus. Lucas Sullivant, a wealthy landowner in Franklinton, later adopted Richard Howe. Sullivant gave Howe his first job, which was to survey and locate a road from Columbus to Cincinnati. When the first board of engineers was organized in 1824 to survey and locate a canal, Howe was selected as one of its members and he retained his position as civil engineer from 1824 to 1850, attaining the rank of president engineer. He was responsible for surveying and mapping of the Ohio and Erie Canal between Cleveland and Massillon. Howe resigned as canal engineer and went west to California to join the gold rush in 1850, along with about 400 Akron residents who left for the gold fields. He did not find gold, but was appointed as deputy surveyor for the state of California. Howe returned to Ohio in 1863 and, in the employ of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railroad, superintended the construction of the bridge across the Ohio River at Steubenville. Richard Howe remained in Ohio until his death. His home in Akron, built in 1836, is the oldest brick building in the city. The Richard Howe Canal Collection is comprised of a number of handwritten notebooks containing notes on canal water measurements, observations of canals, and accounting information. Also present are maps, measured drawings of locks and bridges, a survey of the Miami River, drainage basin, correspondence and some later printed items. The bulk of the materials date from the 1830s through the 1840s.
Creator	Howe, Richard, 1799-1872
Date of Original	1842
Collection	Richard Howe Canal Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) Box 2, Folder 6
Submitting Institution	Kent State University
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om259_1102474_086
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om259_1102474_086.tif
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File Size	2643.017 KB
Full Text	[corresponds to page 1 of Erie Canal Account] [FRONT COVER] Richd [d is Howes Memorandum while view ing the Erie Canal &c. 1842

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