Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. 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
“its firet officers were Timothy Bishop, Andrew Johnson and Aai'on Miller, trustees; William Beers, clerk; Launcelot May, treasurer; Alfred Wolcott and Moses Cunningham, justices of the peace, and James Jordan, constable. More than 140 men of Boston township fought for the Union in the war of 1861-65, the most distinguished of whom was Colonel Arthur L.”
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1908). Machine-read text.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.74000345- 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.
its firet officers were Timothy Bishop, Andrew Johnson and Aai'on Miller, trustees; William Beers, clerk; Launcelot May, treasurer; Alfred Wolcott and Moses Cunningham, justices of the peace, and James Jordan, constable. More than 140 men of Boston township fought for the Union in the war of 1861-65, the most distinguished of whom was Colonel Arthur L. Conger. On July 4, 1889, Colonel and Mrs. Conger presented to Boston Town- .ship the fine soldiers' monument which stands in the village of Peninsula at its western border. Peninsula has an extensive flour-mill and, in the southern part of the village, a large stone-quaiTy of a fine-gi'ained, white .sand-stone, from which mill-stones are made. Boston has saw-mills and the great papermills of the Akron-Cleveland Paper Bag Company, the power for which is partly secured from a large dam thrown across the Cuyahoga River. Colonel A. L. Conger aaid Hon. S. P. Wolcott are the Boston citizens who have earned for themselves the greatest fame. At the present time Charles Peterson is clerk and E. B. Conger and N. B. Wise are justices of the peace.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Ohio and Erie Canal Deep Lock between
1993 and 2012, burning about 7 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural
3
Debris and open burning
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 1,078 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ohio and Erie Canal Deep Lock between 1877 and
1973: 1,019 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, A. Woolman 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
Peninsula, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 9 injuries. 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.
Nine boys ages 11 to 14 were injured when lightning struck a tree near their campsite. All of the injuries were minor. The boys were staying at a campground in Boston Township.
A thunderstorm with torrential rain produced 2.25 of rain, most of which fell within 30 minutes between 606 PM and 636 PM. Flooding commenced shortly thereafter around 640 PM. Storm drains were overwhelmed with water over a foot deep filling in streets. Roads flooded include Morris Drive, Woodland Drive, I-271 underpass, with minor damage to Riverview Road.
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
1,596 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.
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)
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74000345, 13 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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