FCHT09 O & E Canal Traditional Cache

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Backwoods Reviewer: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.

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Hidden : 1/31/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Welcome to the Fairfield County History Geo Trail - Our trail will take you all over Fairfield County to many of our small historic towns that make up this great county. We hope you have fun and experience all our county has to offer.

As part of the national government's goals to improve transportation, save Ohio farmers, and encourage buckeye population, on July 4, 1825, state officials conducted groundbreaking ceremonies for the Ohio & Erie Canal on the Licking Summit just south of Newark. Those towns that were fortunate enough to be on the surveyed route of the 40-foot wide (at the top) ditch between Cleveland and Portsmouth anxiously awaited construction. Every "canawler" would be a potential customer and business opportunities would abound at every lock where passengers disembarked for the 15-minute "lock through."
In March of that same year two small villages, separated by the Pawpaw Creek Valley, dedicated their first official plats of ground in preparation for the boom that would arrive as soon as the gates opened allowing water from the Licking Reservoir (Buckeye Lake) to fill the canal. The construction of eight locks (90' x 15' sandstone chambers that served as water elevators) in this area added to the commercial excitement. A towboy walked his mules down the towpath for the first time in October of 1831. The canal would add fuel to a rivalry between New Market (Virginia settlement east of Pawpaw that became Baltimore in 1833) and Basil (Swiss settlement west of Pawpaw) that would officially last until the end of WWII when both sides of Pawpaw became Baltimore..

Though the "Golden Era" of the canal would be over by the 1850's, its cultural impact would stretch well into the twentieth century. Consequently, Baltimore, like many other O & E Canal communities on the 310-mile ditch owes much of its heritage to the "silver ribbon" that brought people, prosperity, and progress. The locks stand as eyewitnesses to an unforgettable episode in the story of our community.


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List of Caches on the Trail
FCHT01 All Aboard
FCHT02 HAS
FCHT03 Deep Cut
FCHT04 Smeck Farm
FCHT05 A Memorial
FCHT06 Rock Mill
FCHT07 Cump
FCHT08 Lockville
FCHT09 O & E Canal
FCHT10 Oil Boom
FCHT11 Crossroads and Fence Corners
FCHT12 StonewallED
FCHT13 Writing on the Wall
FCHT14 The Junction
FCHT15 AMA HOF

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