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Miami and Erie Canal - Decline and Abandonment | | Miami and Erie Canal - Decline and Abandonment: Encyclopedia II - Miami and Erie Canal - Decline and Abandonment | | Completed just before most of the railroads in Ohio were built, the canal competed with railroads through much of its useful life. Ice in the winter, as well as the slowness of the boats, made it fairly impractical compared to railroads, and by 1906, the canal had largely ceased to operate. A catastrophic flood of the Great Miami River in 1913 and the subsequent flood control measures constructed by the Miami Conservancy District destroyed much of the canal infrastructure along the southern portion of the route where it paralleled the Great Miami River. One of the original locks ( ...
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Miami and Erie Canal - Decline and Abandonment
Completed just before most of the railroads in Ohio were built, the canal competed with railroads through much of its useful life. Ice in the winter, as well as the slowness of the boats, made it fairly impractical compared to railroads, and by 1906, the canal had largely ceased to operate. A catastrophic flood of the Great Miami River in 1913 and the subsequent flood control measures constructed by the Miami Conservancy District destroyed much of the canal infrastructure along the southern portion of the route where it paralleled the Great Miami River. One of the original locks (#17) is located in the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio.
Much of the original towpath served as the right-of-way for the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, an electric interurban streetcar that operated until 1940.
From 1920 to 1925 $6 million dollars was spent to use the bed of the canal to build a downtown subway. The surface was paved over to form Central Parkway. Funds ran out before the Cincinnati Subway was completed.
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