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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to captezri [2014-05-13 03:59:53 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to LordNegaduck [2011-08-20 05:46:38 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow cool! Yup I am a Ohio Canal Historian myself. I am a history major at the University of Akron (Ohio). I want to see the NY Erie Canal one day.

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LordNegaduck In reply to OhioErieCanalGirl [2011-08-20 06:02:43 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow! Tis so very interesting!! I so love the canals! I also have piccies of the old lock houses that line the Pennsylvania Canal as well. The lock houses along the Delaware and Hudson are all gone Gary Keeton of the Delare and Hudson Canal said that the canalers and the local townspeople really didn't get along to well. There was always that friction.

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to LordNegaduck [2011-08-20 06:07:30 +0000 UTC]

The canalers in Ohio were so rowdy, that even the town police would not deal with them!

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LordNegaduck In reply to OhioErieCanalGirl [2011-08-20 06:17:42 +0000 UTC]

Tis seemed the canalers in New York as well. And the canalers used to trade goods for some of their cargo By the time the boat got to its destination in New York City, the coal was depleted by a quater

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to LordNegaduck [2011-08-20 07:01:28 +0000 UTC]

LOL, the canalers here used to beat each other up with Poles and Whips.

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LordNegaduck In reply to OhioErieCanalGirl [2011-08-21 06:02:01 +0000 UTC]

My goodness!! Well I guess the competition was somewhat fierce

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to LordNegaduck [2011-08-21 09:01:54 +0000 UTC]

It sure was, they used to stand on the locks and hit each other with poles. Whoever fell in the canal first had to let the winner go through the lock!

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LordNegaduck In reply to OhioErieCanalGirl [2011-08-22 04:30:47 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow!! That sounds so interesting!! I thought ya always had to pay to get through the locks regardless In New York, Gary was saying that sometimes the boats used to sneak through around midnight, so the lock keeper put a gate across the water and wouldn't unlock it until 5:00 am, that way he made sure he got his money

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to LordNegaduck [2011-08-23 19:40:46 +0000 UTC]

LOL, they once tied up the lockkeeper and went through the lock for free, the guys who did it were never caught!

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LordNegaduck In reply to OhioErieCanalGirl [2011-08-24 03:39:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh GOD I would have hated to be that lockkeeper But me sure that the canalers thought of lots of ways to save money

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to LordNegaduck [2011-08-24 20:26:05 +0000 UTC]

LOL! Ohio's canal history is full of crazy stories like that!

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OhioErieCanalGirl In reply to IstentheWise [2011-08-11 22:04:34 +0000 UTC]

thank you So

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