Canal Tunnels

Southeast of this point, the Big and Little tunnels were links in the seventy-three-mile Sandy and Beaver Canal, which connected the Ohio River with the Ohio and Erie Canal. Shifts of Irish laborers worked night and day with hand drills and blasting powder to cut the one thousand sixty-yard Big Tunnel, which opened for commercial use in 1850 and was abandoned two years later as a victim of the railroad.

Ohio · United States