Canal Boat
(Canal Boat at Big Basin, North of Jasper)
Pike's Past by Jim Henry, Author & Artist
(Sketch drawn by Jim Henry)
The Ohio and Erie Canal which ran through Pike County was then and is still today a point of high interest for Pike County and all Ohio residents.
The canal that cut a north-south path through Pike County was part of a statewide system that began construction in 1825 and was completed in 1834 at an approximate cost of $4,695,000.
The canal had a total of 152 locks including feeder locks and crossed 333 miles.
The old canal system was abandoned 1913.
The Ohio canal building years from 1825 to 1848 were significant in Ohio History because of the canal's profound effect on the state's economic development prior to the civil War assisting an economically isolated, almost wilderness, state to become populous wealthy and powerful.
The Waverly News Watchman
1976
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Pike Co. Genealogy Society a Chapter of O.G.S.
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