In Search Of The Hocking Canal

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2025

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  • @speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783
    @speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We need to bring it back!

  • @meinhartstock
    @meinhartstock ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I've watched over a dozen videos on the Ohio & Erie canal and this this the best one I've seen. Thanks for making it.

  • @rexphiles
    @rexphiles ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Very nice! Lock 11 near Rockbridge was the scene of a boating accident where a boat loaded with barrels of flour struck the wall of the lock and sank. The owner of the boat and cargo thought he had lost his entire investment. My great-great-grandfather Henry Troxel believed that the water would penetrate the cracks in the barrels and create a paste that would seal the barrels, thus saving the largest portion of the flour. Troxel offered $300.99 for the boat and cargo. He begun work on raising the boat and cargo, and cleaned the flour that was still good. He then shipped it to Cleveland and sold it for $3000. From that he bought a nearby prosperous farm in Millville now Rockbridge. The Buckeye-Troxel Road is named after his family.

    • @talesofsoutheasternohio6207
      @talesofsoutheasternohio6207  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching and commenting!! So many stories are connected with the canal.

    • @Clint-zs4rq
      @Clint-zs4rq 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @rexphiles, I wonder if this incident with the flour you tell of is the inspiration for Louis Lamour's fictional account of the same thing. In his story Reilly's Luck, Louis Lamour has his protagonist Val, do just what you describe. In St. Louis I think. Val helps a boat Captain recover some flour that had sunk on a barge in the Mississippi river. Same story, the water only affects the flour on the outside. The flour inside is still good.

  • @trackpackgt877
    @trackpackgt877 วันที่ผ่านมา

    18:23 i can see my house!! very cool video i had no idea about this history in my own town.

  • @thesoundchekguy
    @thesoundchekguy ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This was a really good documentary. The music choices also help with the feeling of it. "Cripple Creek," "My Grandfather's Clock," "Morgan's Raiders," etc.

  • @OwenFromOhio
    @OwenFromOhio 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I very much enjoyed this video. Raised in Zanesville, Ohio, I greatly appreciate the Muskingum River Lock System that still operates today.

  • @donolbers
    @donolbers ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Athens basin was where Rosenberg's Parking Lot once was, just west of the old south bridge over Richland Ave. The Armitage Lock looks much cleaner than when we "discovered" it in the spring flooding of 1973, when my friend, Bob Daft followed the water running through the well field and into it. Our first thought was that it was an old river channel. Good memtion of the salvaging of the stone blocks, some of those make up the foundation of the Athens City Hall. Last, my great-great grandfather, William Daniel Smart, left his home at the old swinging bridge over Sunday Creek, near Morristown, and followed the canal into Athens to join the Union Army at Camp Wool in 1862, aged 15, and his father in law, Thomas Montgomery was a stonemason who cut stone for the canal. We were fascinated with the Hocking Canal as youths, thank you all for this documentary.

    • @talesofsoutheasternohio6207
      @talesofsoutheasternohio6207  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We appreciate your comments! We do the videos that we do because we enjoy digging a bit through our history, thanks for watching!!!

  • @mattbaker651
    @mattbaker651 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really nicely produced. Growing up in Bremen it's neat to see all the history in this area.

  • @vonparaz27
    @vonparaz27 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you....

  • @teresaklaiber8616
    @teresaklaiber8616 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was amazing my 3rd gg John Cunningham Turner was a miller at Baltimore (Oh) and from 1850 - 1853 he owned a canal boat called the Rochester which was sold in Athens. He moved to CA having one of the earliest mills in LA called Eagle Mill after leaving Fairfield County.

  • @teresak1177
    @teresak1177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome presentation! I am a Hoosier but love any canal history. Thanks for all the history!!

  • @michelledavis5863
    @michelledavis5863 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What about the locke behind the old feed mill in sugar Grove? Great history lesson.

  • @mralmnthwyfemnin5783
    @mralmnthwyfemnin5783 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you very much for making this documentary. Much appreciated !

  • @paulheine8173
    @paulheine8173 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    GREAT VIDEO! WELL MADE AND DUBBED. SUPER HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND ARCHIVED. I AM GONNA PURCHASE THE VIDEO.

  • @MrTanbou1
    @MrTanbou1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is awesome. Thanks so much for putting this together!!

  • @ervinslens
    @ervinslens ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spectacular presentation my friend 🔥🔥

  • @trackandtrail1
    @trackandtrail1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent work gentlemen!

  • @BartSimpson-n2l
    @BartSimpson-n2l 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice !!!

  • @cliff8680
    @cliff8680 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think maybe we should do like England and re water the canals. I grew up in valley view ohio in a old canal stop house. Just across the street from the erie and Cuyahoga river.

    • @talesofsoutheasternohio6207
      @talesofsoutheasternohio6207  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have heard that comment from several people. Interesting thought , thanks for watching!

  • @chuckg6039
    @chuckg6039 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Outstanding video. I'm a canal adventurer.

  • @jim-f4n
    @jim-f4n ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice Doc. Question. Why do the locks look so narrow and small. It doesn’t look like a barge would come close to fitting?The last one in the video looks like it would work. But the one the guy with the blue shirt is leaning on seems miniature. Jim.

    • @talesofsoutheasternohio6207
      @talesofsoutheasternohio6207  ปีที่แล้ว

      As historian Tom O'Grady describes early in the video, there were set minimum dimensions but there were some that for some reason were built larger. The numbers escape me at the moment but they are mentioned early in the video. Thanks for watching! We appreciate your comment and question.

  • @stephenlineman
    @stephenlineman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great vid but kuddos to OHIO FOR LETTING HISTORIC THINGS DECAY TO TIME GOOD JOB

  • @jimmyjackass1805
    @jimmyjackass1805 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To bad they did not take care of it the way NY kept up the Erie Canal.

  • @jamesomalley4556
    @jamesomalley4556 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How does the earth take back all of that in 120 yrs or so

  • @allenschmitz9644
    @allenschmitz9644 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    By 'cracky' the woman folk used baskets to dig their share of this dream and men folk cheered them on for miles.

  • @lilamayoral1031
    @lilamayoral1031 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hocking valley is definitely Old money 😅

  • @jamesburns8247
    @jamesburns8247 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    way too much squeaky music