Lockington Locks
40.209444444444 - 84.243888888889Koordinaten: 40 ° 12 ' 34 "N, 84 ° 14' 38 " W
The Lockington Locks are a group of canal locks at the former Miami and Erie Canal in Lockington, Ohio in the United States. Construction began in 1833 and 1845, the locks were taken for regular use in operation. The lock system consisted of seven individual locks, of which six on the northern end of a summit section and the seventh were at the southern end. This is a six- kilometer section of the channel between Lockington in the far south of Shelby County and the Washington Township on the northern edge of Miami County.
Structures
The locks are located on the southern end of the Loramie Summit, a 34- km-long high ridge that sweeps from Lockington northward to New Bremen. 21 Lockington was originally an important place on the canal: The village is located at the site of linkage with the Loramie Creek, which was originally crossed by an aqueduct, and brought about the end of a feed channel, the large amounts of water from Lewistown reservoir near Ohio's highest elevation in Logan County. This meeting place of the smaller channel with the larger was so invested in Lockington, because there was in the region of the vertex distance of 288 meters above sea level the highest point of the Miama and Erie Canals. 61 The Northward ships were in Lockington total of 20 m raised. lock 21 in 48 they went to three meters in lock 49, 50 and 51 respectively to 3.35 m, and the lock 52 and 53 at 3.65. 61 the passage through the seven locks usually lasted several hours. The village of Lockington (originally Lockport ) was built to supply the waiting sailors and their passengers with services. 22 The individual locks were made of large blocks of limestone, some of which have mass 230 kg, built and equipped with wooden base. The sluice gates were built of American White Oak.
Later history
The economic highlight of the canal system in Ohio was reached in 1855. Then the turnover steadily decreased because of competition from the new railway transport; even smaller towns like Lockington received stations. 213 A revival of canal traffic was associated in the 1900s with a restoration of the facilities, but a disastrous 1913 flood destroyed many buildings of the channel and made the hopes of future economic benefit to naught. Today the Lockington Locks and the surrounding land are a park, and the only water that still flows today through the lock, is rainwater runoff after heavy rain. The landscape in the vicinity of the locks is relatively unaffected, so that a conversion of the former towpath comes in a trail into consideration.
Monument status
In 1969, the Lockington Locks were entered in the National Register of Historic Places and were therefore recorded as first place in the both the Miami County as well as in the Shelby County Register. Other related with the channel connection sites were later included in the register; the Piqua Historical Area State Memorial in Miami County was added in 1971 and the Turtle Creek Culvert and Embankment in Shelby County in 1978 - the latter, however, removed seven years later again from the register. The locks were taken both for their significant engineering achievements of its time and because of the importance for the region in terms of the history of Ohio and at the national level in the National Register of Historic Places.