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Early Akron's Industrial Valley - A History of the Cascade Locks (Paperback)
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Early Akron's Industrial Valley - A History of the Cascade Locks (Paperback)
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List price R410
Loot Price R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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In this study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian Jack Gieck
examines the story of this remarkable lock system, including a look
at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the
precipitous terrain to found one of the first industrial centers in
the American Midwest. A steep staircase of sixteen locks was
required to raise canal boats 149 feet in a single mile in order to
reach the Akron Summit - the highest point on the 309-mile-long
Ohio & Erie Canal. But what was considered by some to be an
impossible feat of engineering represented a commercial opportunity
for others, beginning with Dr. Eliakim Crosby, who built a two-mile
millrace from a dam on the Little Cuyahoga River at Middlebury to
his Stone Mill at Lock 5 on the canal. After turning Crosby's
millstones, the water became the Cascade Race, flowing down the
steep slope parallel to the canal, giving rise to more than a dozen
industries, including several iron furnaces, a foundry, a woolen
mill, a furniture factory, a distillery, several grist mills, and
two rubber plants - all of them turned by waterpower. And they
shipped their products to markets from New York to New Orleans via
the canal running by their back doors. Early Akron's ""Industrial
Valley"" is illustrated with photographs from the author's
collection and the archives of the Canal Society of Ohio, the Ohio
Historical Society, the University of Akron, and the Cascade Locks
Park Association. It contains a guide for Canalway hikers and
bikers on the towpath through Akron's Cascade Locks Park with
original maps by Chuck Ayers. This book will be welcomed by
historians and engineers as well as by the many who find the
surviving canals to be fascinating symbols of Ohio's heritage.
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