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Title
Canal
near
Jefferson
Street
Bridge
photograph
Subject
Canals--Ohio--History
Dayton, Ohio
Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works
Canals--Ohio--Dayton
Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Dayton (Ohio)
Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description
Caption
reads
: "
Looking
up
canal
from
Jefferson
Street
Bridge.
"
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
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File Name
SA1039AV_B02F06_015.tif
Image Height
2196
Image Width
3076
File Size
20289252 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
picture
Date created
2009-08-11
Date modified
2011-06-15
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