Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1973. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.73001493- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ohio Canal Groundbreaking Site between
2020 and 2020, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,760 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ohio Canal Groundbreaking Site between 1843 and
1975: 2,433 Animalia, 247 Fungi, 51 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Heath, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood.
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.
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.
From the nomination file
1,568 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001493, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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