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Photograph of Lock No. 33
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Lock No. 33

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 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 1979 · category: Structure · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1 mi. S of Highland Rd., Boston, 44264
  • When was it listed? 1979-12-11
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Ohio and Erie Canal TR
  • Township. Boston township
  • National Register reference number. 79000309 - 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

299 words

The chapter on Boston Township in Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names Boston. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

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.

Passage source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908.

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 Boston Township - 299 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lock No. 33 between 1993 and 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
16 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkQUICK
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
5 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkGOOD
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY
15 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCuyahoga Valley National ParkPINE LANE

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 746 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 746 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lock No. 33 between 1877 and 1973: 717 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, Adams J. M. R. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1904W. WarnerCuyahoga Falls
Specimen of Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)1928not recordedBrandywine Brook, Hudson, North America
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891892Beryl HodgeHudson
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedSilver Lake
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedSilver Lake, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedSilver Lake, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

All 746 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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.

From the nomination file

504 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 504 words, 4 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79000309, 4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stanford, George, Farm0.4 miles1982
Lock No. 320.7 miles1979
Lock No. 340.9 miles1979
Brown, Jim, Tavern0.9 miles1979
Stumpy Basin1.8 miles1979
Lock No. 311.9 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000309 in Record Group 79.
Summit CountyAll 137 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.
  • 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.