Nomination for Ohio Canal Groundbreaking Site

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Congressional District: 17 Form 10-300 X State UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) 2 4 1973 AND/ OR HISTORIC: JAN 3 (Check One) X Unoccupied - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments Commercial .

- Other (Specify) OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 089 039 1967 Site NAME Licking Heath Hebron Road LOCATION Both ACCESSIBLE Religious Newark COUNTY Entertainment Educational Private Restricted Structure CLASSIFICATION DATE CATEGORY District Columbus Museum Building CODE North Park Place Transportation OWNERSHIP Being Considered Object STATUS Yes: Scientific Public Government Licking County Courthouse Park Agricultural Industrial Military The Ohio Historical Center RECEIVED Private Residence Ohio Historic Landmarks Phase I ENTRY NUMBER REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS COMMON: STREET AND NUMBER: Ohio Canal ground breaking site Public Acquisition: TO THE PUBLIC John M.

Ashbrook CITY OR TOWN: In Process Interstate 7l & l7th Ave Ohio The Village of Heath,Ohio MAY DESCRIPTION - Excellent - Good - Deteriorated IN S - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved * Original Site of the Village of Heath, Ohio. Non the site is a stone is ample evidence, however, that the area is used for JAN 3 picnics.

NATIONAL REGISTER end of the lock structure and the site is regularly main- braced with timbers to prevent the entire structure from The ground breaking site for the Ohio-Erie Canal is of Heath.Some landscaping has been done along the southern of the marker is the partial remains of a lock constructed (Hebron Road) and slightly north of the southern boundary The site & lock) is maintained by the Village time is in a state of disrepair.The west wall of the RECEIVED located immediately adjacent to and east of Ohio Route79 tained.It is not a park in the formal sense -i.e., there (Check One) marker which indicates that "on this spot, Saturday. July 4th,1825,the Ohio Canal was started.

To the north lock has been cut down by 3 1/2 to 4 feet.Both walls are - Good Fair CONDITION There Fair from the site with no indication as to when they were are no facilities commonly associated with a park. in l825.The lock has been altered and at the present SIGNIFICANCE Pre-Columbian | K 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) JAN 3 - NATIONAL itarian . Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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former Governor of Ohio, Jeremiah Morrow, also a former Governor of Ohio, and Thomas Ewing, the Ohio Governor in 1825. Commerce Military Engineering Theater Communications REGISTER Architecture Conservation Industry Aboriginal Landscape Science terminating at Portsmouth. Agriculture Prehistoric Religion/Phi Literature Education Invention Music appointment of three canal commissioners and an engineer. Sculpture Along with DeWitt Clinton, former Governor of New York and Due to the failure of Congress to donate public lands to pushed north and south from the ground breaking point.By breaking ceremonies for the first section of the Ohio Canal. from the rich agricultural regions in Ohio to eastern markets of consumer items destined for the central and southern Ohio suggested to the legislature, that Ohio needed a canal system.

commission selected the route beginning at Cleveland and Perhaps as important, the canal reduced drastically the cost the Ohio Canal provided a cheap means of moving farm goods defray the cost of the construction.the canal was not begun party settled down to enjoy an outdoor feast. century prior to the widespread introduction of the railroads in a wooded area south of Newark, Ohio to witness the ground miles) at a cost of almost eight million dollars.As In l820 the legislature passed an act which provided for the the genius behind the Erie Canal, was Thomas Worthington, Political a whole the Ohio Canal was a success.In the quarter of a 1833 the entire main line of the Ohio Canal was completed Social/Hum July 4, 1825 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) until 1825.

In 1824 engineers surveyed several possible I WIn the eight years after 1825 construction crews losophy Art markets. No longer was it necessary for exports and imports vamped and four members were added.Shortly afterwards the After Governor Clinton turned the first spade of soil the routes.In February of 1825 the Canal Commission was re- to be shipped by way of New Orleans or over the Appalachians. 1881), Pp. 130, 257 -1261. (Columbus, 1964), pp. 89-91. Taylor, George R., The Transportation Revolution, (New York, 1951), pp. 45-48.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: TY BOUNDARIES JAN 3 FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: Amos J. Loveday, JX. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion - Locabd 039 Degrees Seconds Minutes COUNTY LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION LATITUDE Name COUNT CORNER STATE DATE CODE REGISTER NATIONAL MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Degrees Minutes Seconds I hereby certify that this property is included in the The National Register evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set level of significance of this nomination is: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- 5479-B Rockwood Ct.

CITY OR TOWN: in the National Register and certify that it has been Hill, N. N., History of Licking County Ohio, (Newark, Ohio, Roseboom, E. H. & Weisenburger, F. P., A History of Ohio, LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OF P July, 1972 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GP 0 901.087 = Columbus 1973 Title 375600 STREET AND NUMBER: RECEVED Ohio Federal Register entry _ WAY 2 4 1973 Maps REVIEW UNIT CHIEF ARCHEOLOGIST HISTORIAN Send-back Entered KEEPER BRANCH CHIEF Re-submit TECH REVIEW 1.3.73.2051 Photos WORKING NUMBER National Register write-up ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN CONTROL REVIEW Licking 73001493 HAEN 3/30/73 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1= 3 THURS.

7:00 HOBACK PARK PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER 24 19 COMMON: Ohio Canal Ground Breaking Site AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: LickidAN 3 U.S.G.S., Newark Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. 089 039 1961 NATIONAL STATE Licking 1973 NAME REGISTER COUNTY Heath DATE 1:24000 REQUIREMENTS CODE Ohio SCALE: LOCATION SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAP REFERENCE PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: PO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 40 00" 46" NEWARK QUADRANGLE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEWARK, OHIO ground breaking West Long.

Ohio Canal 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) W%, 82- 27" 27 E375600 JAN 3 UNITED STATES site ROAD CLASSIFICATION North Lat. REGISTER STATE OF OHIO Mr. Daniel R. Porter, Director Hon. Walter E. Powel1 Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. John M. Ashbrook Location Butler County STATE PHR Pleasant Run Mounds Name Heath vicinity Fairfield vicinity State Historic Preservation Officer Date Entered OHIO The Ohio Historical Society Ohio Canal ground breaking site Nashport Mound Licking County Also Notified Director, Northeast Region ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Muskingum County Hon. Clarence E. Miller NRow1and:pcl 6/8/73 Hon. William B. Saxbe MAY June 25, 1973 .Mr. Jerry Rogers Washington, D. C. 20240 near Ohio Routes 5 & 7, Kinsman, Ohio, Trumbull County.

VOhio Canal Groundbreaking Site, Ohio Route 79, Heath, Cleveland Grays Armory, 1234 Bolivar Road, Cleveland, the Cleveland Grays, 1234 Bolivar Road, Cleveland, not Resor, William, House, 254 Greendale Avenue, Cincinnati, Mr. Alexander, Jr., listed as owners, have sold the property to Dr. Cyril E. Schrimpf, 3540 Clifton Avenue, MFenwick Club Annex, 426 E. Fifth St., Cincinnati, Leibold, Archbishop of Cincinnati. Mr. Leibold Cincinnati. your records. National Register of Historic Places sheet also corrects some misinformation in the form National Park Service Presbyterian Church (Congregational-Presbyterian Church) as it was sent to Washington. Department of the Interior In the past few months we have been informed of some errors which have sheet with additional information about the armory read Joe Prentner.

the city of Cleveland.We have enclosed a continuation location and with latitude and longitude listed. Dear Mr. Rogers: Goshorn,Sir Alfred T.,House, 3540 Clifton Avenue, Che ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus,ohio 432l/telephone (614) 469-4663 Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue 18th and C Streets, N.W. which the Cleveland Grays provided. The continuation Ohio, Hamilton County. The owners are listed as G. W. Alexander, Jr. and Joe Prenter. The last name should Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton County. Mr. Prentner and listed them below and we would appreciate having the changes made on incorrect.We have encloseda new map with the correct Ohio, Licking County. The owner is listed as the Village of Heath;it should be the City of Heath. The location on the map and the latitude and longitude are are any questions, please contact us.

Judith Kitchen enclosures Sincerely, Architectural Historian Thank you for your assistance in making these corrections.If there as the Archdiocese of Cincinnati at the address given. We regret the errors and apologize for the sloppy job done on the forms. died recently and the owner should be simply listed JK/g1k