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Photograph of Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert No. 100
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert #100

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Lockport was the only village in the township. It was located on the Wabash and Erie canal, and for many years a large amount of business was transacted at this place.”

History of Carroll County Indiana (1916). Machine-read text.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Towpath Rd. over Burnett's Creek, Lockport, 47926
  • When was it listed? March 2002
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Adams township
  • National Register reference number. 02000194 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

182 words

The chapter on Adams Township in History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names Lockport. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

1835. Lockport was the only village in the township. It was located on the Wabash and Erie canal, and for many years a large amount of business was transacted at this place. John Newman built a saw-mill on Rattlesnake creek in 1834. and a few years later added a flouring-mill. A number of saw-mills were built by various persons.

Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Adams Township - 182 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLockport$3,000Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLockport$2,000Trees of unknown size downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLockport$2,000Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLockport-Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2006HailLockport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Burris House and Potawatomi Spring0.5 miles1977
Lockport Wabash River Bridge0.7 miles2025
Little Rock Creek Stone Arch Bridge0.8 miles2021
District School No. 33.5 miles1988
Carrollton Bridge6.0 miles2003
Camden Masonic Temple6.7 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000194 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll CountyAll 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.