This painting is on Central Parkway between Vine and Race a few doors down the block and on the other side of the street to the painting of Cincinnatus. Central Parkway was the location of the Miami & Erie Canal. The paint showes a tow boat and what the Cincinnati looked like along the canal in the Mid 1800's.
The Miami & Erie canal was a development and joining of three canals, the Miami Canal begun in 1925 and running from Cincinnati to Dayton, the Miami Extension and the Wabash & Erie Canal which terminated at Toledo/Lake Erie. Renamed the Miami & Erie Canal in 1849 it had one summit, the Loramie Summit, also called the Loramie Plateau, which was 374 feet above Lake Erie and 516 feet above the Ohio River a total lockage of 890 feet. From the Lake to the north end of the summit was 124 3/4 miles, the summit 24 miles and then 100 miles to the Ohio, totaling approximately 249 miles. It had 19 aqueducts, 3 guard locks, 103 lift locks, 50 to the north of the summit, 53 to the south, all constructed at 90 feet X 15 feet. The system cost $6.7 million or $12,000 per mile.
Between 1861 and 1878 the canal was leased to private enterprise that greatly neglected the canals maintenance. The flood of 1913 ended canal traffic as it did throughout Ohio. The Miami & Erie Canal was not officially closed until 1929.
The Miami & Erie canal was a development and joining of three canals, the Miami Canal begun in 1925 and running from Cincinnati to Dayton, the Miami Extension and the Wabash & Erie Canal which terminated at Toledo/Lake Erie. Renamed the Miami & Erie Canal in 1849 it had one summit, the Loramie Summit, also called the Loramie Plateau, which was 374 feet above Lake Erie and 516 feet above the Ohio River a total lockage of 890 feet. From the Lake to the north end of the summit was 124 3/4 miles, the summit 24 miles and then 100 miles to the Ohio, totaling approximately 249 miles. It had 19 aqueducts, 3 guard locks, 103 lift locks, 50 to the north of the summit, 53 to the south, all constructed at 90 feet X 15 feet. The system cost $6.7 million or $12,000 per mile.
Between 1861 and 1878 the canal was leased to private enterprise that greatly neglected the canals maintenance. The flood of 1913 ended canal traffic as it did throughout Ohio. The Miami & Erie Canal was not officially closed until 1929.
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