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A Self-Guided Tour of Hocking Canal Landmarks
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The Hocking Canal can be traced through surviving landmarks in and around Logan and Haydenville. Sheep Pen Lock lies along Dupler Road east of Mill Road. In Logan, a house at Gallagher Avenue and Main Street was once a tavern serving the canal, and its small sealed front door was the tavern’s original entrance. The canal ran behind King Kitchen and Bath, formerly the Logan Woollen Mill, near the intersection of State Route 93 and Front Street, and Mennel Milling, formerly Keynes Flour Mill, was built in 1855 just west of that building. From there the canal continued east parallel to East Front Street behind present businesses and houses. At Old Town Creek Park on the south side of East Front Street, a well-preserved Hocking Canal culvert foundation remains where the canal crossed Old Town Creek. Farther southeast toward Haydenville, Wright’s Lock survives near the route from Logan, and beyond Haydenville Johnny Appleseed Lock marks another canal site. Haydenville also retains distinctive houses built of glazed brick, block, and tile manufactured there in the 1870s and 1890s. Other canal remnants are either not on public land or are no longer recognizable, and several canals and locks were filled in for safety or to prevent stagnant water from collecting. The old canal path runs between present U.S. 33 and the train tracks between Haydenville and Nelsonville.
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