This is an easy park and grab. Parking is available all around the lock area.
This cache is a nano container. There is room for a log only. Bring a pencil! Enjoy the hunt!!!
The Miami and Erie Canal played an important role in the early development and growth of Defiance.
The canal system opened in 1845 from the Miami River to Lake Erie in Toledo and headed west from Toledo to Fort Wayne and Lafayette, Indiana.
Canal traffic remained strong through those areas until the 1850s when railroads began to supplant canals. Passenger boats stopped traveling the canals by 1862, and the Wabash & Erie Canal ceased operations by 1870.
The Miami & Erie Canal hung on until the early 1900s, and the notorious floods of 1913 pretty much destroyed what was left of the canal. By 1917, workers in the city and county of Defiance gradually drained the canals and filled them in.
Defiance uncovered the remains of Lock 37 in 1997 in its downtown, establishing a pocket park in the middle of a parking lot containing the restored remains of Lock 37 and a sign explaining the lock's operation.
Please replace as found for the next cacher!