Nomination for Ohio and Erie Canal Deep Lock

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) SEP 9 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: Riverview Road 14 - John Seiberling (Check One) - In Process - Preservation work - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: 65 S.

Front Street LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: MAY 1 3 1974 039 153 Akron Columbus Religious STATE Summit Both Government NAME Commercial CATEGORY Entertainment CLASSIFICATION REGISTER ACCESSIBLE Private Educational Structure Agricultural COUNTY NATIONAL Museum Transportation Being Considered District Restricted Site STATUS CODE Unoccupied Ohio Park Scientific Yes: Building Private Residence COMMON: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: OWNERSHIP Public Military Industrial Public Acquisition: LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: 72 South High Street Object OWNER OF PROPERTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES TO THE PUBLIC NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY DATE CITY OR TOWN: of Peninsula on PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) State of Ohio Department of Public Works Road Township SEP Summit County Building Ohio and Erie Canal Deep Lock DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

MAY 1 3 1974 CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL essentially two parallel walls of cut stone construction.At the of preventing further weathering of the stone, but the old stonework walls are in good condition. the walls flare outward to facilitate the approach of the boats. stone walls were faced with cement in 1907-1908,with the idea south end they are connected by the slightly concave low This is a stone masonry canal lock structure.The channel is (Check One) 90 feet long by 15 feet wide by 16 feet deep.The structure is * Good - Fair - Ruins - Unexposed - Moved Excellent Fair Original Site retaining wall of the upper channel.At the north or deep end, RECEIVED PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Science 7 Theater X Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

Deep Lock was thus part of a major transportation system declined after the Civil War, and ceased to function for all MAY 1 3 1974 1827 Architecture Commerce Conservation Communications Aboriginal Engineering SIGNIFICANCE losophy Register nomination for Peninsula Village. itarian Prehistoric Agriculture REGISTER NATIONAL Music Literature Education Religion/Phi significant contribution to the broad patterns of state and Social/Human- Urban Planning Political Sculpture RECEIVED Commission for Canals determined to complete the Akron The nearest canal remains have been included in another National Industry In September of that year the feasibility of the route was Other canal remains between Peninsula and Akron are insignificant. serviceable for pleasure boating, but it was not long before first boat arrived in Cleveland from Akron on July 4,1827. it was completely abandoned.

Invention determined, and work on the Cuyahoga Section was definitely Discussions on the possibility of an Ohio-Erie Canal began was commonly called Deep Lock. Landscape It was Lock number 28 of the Akron-Cleveland section, and between Akron and Cleveland on the Ohio and Erie Canal. locks with concrete in 1907 was ostensibly to make the canal The development of the canals was an event that made a Military Other (Specify) in the 1830's and 1840's. The importance of the canals practical purposes around 1900. The restoration of some Art national history.This lock is the deepest one of the chain AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES STATE Ohio As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation - Keeper of The National Register GP 0 931-894 039 Local Seconds DATE LATITUDE Cleveland Name Degrees National COUNTY ORGANIZATION LONGITUDE Minutes CODE REGISTER ATTEST: CORNER Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES October 1973 10825 East Boulevard STREET AND NUMBER: evaluated according to the citeria and procedures set National Register.

NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION less than one level of significance of this nomination is: NAME AND TITLE: FORM PREPARED BY T2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION in the National Register and certify that it has been CITY OR TOWN: APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 4564540 Ohio Frank Wilcox, Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY SEP 9 1974 8. Amplification of Statement of Significance There are no known ruins, either above or below ground, of Akron and Cleveland required 42 locks on the canal, and the depth of the Deep Lock gave the elevation required at that construction.

Summit COUNTY DATE STATE Ohio (Continuation Sheet) (Number all entries) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GP0921-724 ENTRY NUMBER The lock is known as the Deep Lock simply because it is the (July 1969) that any are left underground, since the slope of the ground point. That is, it was made as deep as it had to be. deepest on the canal. The topography of the land between buildings associated with the Deep Lock.It is unlikely adjacent to the lock makes the site unsuitable for building CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Send-back _ Re-submit _ SEP 9 INT: 1538-73 Entered KEEPER MAPS 5.16. WORKING NUMBER National Register Write-up HISTORIAN TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 1115/74 PHOTOS 2 1974 Summit 5,13,74.761 _ 1. Name. 2. Location. 3. Classification. 4. Owner of Property. . - 5. Location of Legal Description. - 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. _ _10.

Geographical Data. 11. Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. Photographic Coverage. . preferably an original USGS, which allows us to check latitude-longitude. Thank you for your attention' to the above items checked!. Bibliography. Acreage. SIGNED: Longitude and Latitude Coordinates. Other. office for clarification of the information indicated below. Clarification or correction of the above itens must be made prior to the initiation The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your criteria in full. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register NAME OF PROPERTY - Map Coverage. _ of our professional review.

Correction of these technical errors does not DATE: Please use a map bearing an identified system of coordinates SHEET COMMENTS: DESCRIPTION: NAME: WRITE-UP COMMENT If there are couments(negative or positive) which will affect the write up, please indicate them below. (leave attached to nomination) STYLE OR CULTURE: SURVEY RECORDS form correct?): DATE AND INSTIGATOR (builder, architect, group, engineer, etc.): LOCATION: SIGNIFICANCE (specify paragraph or line): UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC COT 2. LOCATION TOWN Peninsula STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE E. Johannesen 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAY 1 3 1974 GPO 932-009 Lock, looking south. 1973 Summit Historical Soc.

DATE COUNTY Riverview Road STATE NATIONAL REGISTE Boston Township NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) PHOTO CREDIT Deep Lock (6/72) (Assigned by NPS) Ohio NEGATIVE FILED AT TOWN RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME NUMERIC CODE (Aseigned by NPS) SEP 9 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT E. Johannesen 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAY 1 3 1974 GPO 932-009 1974 1973 Summit Historical Soc. DATE COMMON NATIONAL COUNTY Riverview Road REGISTE Western Reserve Ohio and Erie Canal PHOTO CREDIT Deep Lock Boston Township Lock, Looking north.

(note person for scale.) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (6/72) STREET AND NUMBER TowN Peninsula, RECEIVED Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION Togoston Township 3. MAP REFERENCE MAY 1 3 1974 1967 1974 Quadrangle Peninsula COMMON DATE REGISTER NATIONAL SEP SCALE NUMERIC CODE Lock Riverview Road 1:24,000 SOURCE Ohio PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GP0932.010 STREET AND NUMBER Ohio and Erie Canal Deep (Assigned by NPS) Summit STATE PENINSULA QUADRANGLE Ohio and Erie Canal 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES Deep Lock GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 41° 58"* August 1, 1974 Mr.

Mark Barnes, Archaeologist National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Enclosed is the Continuation Sheet you requested, with the information on the Ohio and Erie Canal Deep Lock, Summit County, Ohio, a nomination This added information was obtained from Mr. Eric Johannesen, who prepared the original form. I hope this clears up any questions X.c.: Eric Johannesen, WRHS Sincerely, pending in your office. Dear Mark: National Park Service Historic Preservation Office about the nomination. Interstate 7l and I7th Avenue SEP 9 Peninsula vicinity Cummins, David, Octagon House Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Name MMott/row STATE 9/13/74 Ashtabula County Conneaut Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Director Also Notified Regional Director, Midwest Region Boston Township Hon. John F.

Seiberling Interstate #7l at 17th Ave. State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Summit County Mr. Daniel R. Porter OHIO 1974