Between 1905 and 1909 the State of Ohio performed repairs with concrete on the lock’s original sandstone blocks. The remains of this concrete are still visible. An exhibit near the lock contains the following quote: "...The most uncomfortable part of our navigation is caused by the careless and unskillful steering of the boat in and through the locks, which seem to be numberless, upwards of two hundred of them on the canal. The boat scarcely escapes a heavy thump on entering every one of them. She strikes and grazes against their sides, and staggers along like a stumbling nag." Former President John Quincy Adams, traveling the Ohio & Erie Canal, November, 1834. The exhibit also contains a display that explains "How Locks Work". Location:
About 1/8 mile north of the Ira
Trailhead (57K) on the Towpath Trail.
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Wednesday, 22-Dec-2004 09:50:47 Eastern Standard Time
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Lock
26 is one of 44 locks along the Ohio & Erie Canal that lifted canal
boats 395 feet in elevation between Cleveland and Akron. In operation
from 1827 to 1913, this lock raised or lowered a canal boat about 9
feet.
