History!dork post

[phantomsangel]

Last weekend, I was bored and took a trip to the Lockington Locks, which are about 20 minutes away from my home.  These locks were used as part of the Miami-Erie canal system to rise a canal boat a total of 67 feet and was the highest point between Cincinnati and Toledo.  There were gates at either end of the lock and water was allowed in as the

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[scaryfangirl]

Very cool. One of my professors in college was an absolute Erie Canal nut (for which we teased her mercilessly). Those locks were an impressive engineering feat--how cool that you got to see them regardless of whether they were operational or not!

*Has Atropos moment. Sighs.*

Thanks for sharing the pics! :)

[phantomsangel]

Thanks! They are really cool. I haven't visited this site since I was in high school, so it was fun to go back and take my time there. Locks really are impressive; I still don't fully understand how they work! ;)

[ladykennedy]

You take nice pics! That's really cool that you got to see those.:)

[phantomsangel]

Thanks! It was lots of fun!

[phantomsangel]

Thanks!

Yeah, it is funny. There are parts of the town where the canal does still have the water in it.