An exhibit at this location includes an historic illustration with a caption that reads: Furnace Run Iron Aqueduct, from an 1892 map of the Ohio & Erie Canal. Location:
About 1/10 of a mile north of the Hunt
Farm Visitor Information Center (48K) on the Towpath Trail.
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Updated:
Wednesday, 22-Dec-2004 09:50:48 Eastern Standard Time
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The
original stone arch culvert that carried the Ohio & Erie Canal over
Furnace Run washed out in 1828, less than a year after the opening of
the canal in the Cuyahoga Valley. After several episodes of repairing
the culvert after washouts, an iron bowstring truss aqueduct replaced
the culvert by 1860. Furnace Run kept its reputation for flooding, requiring
several reconstructions of the aqueduct to keep the canal open.
