Ohio and Erie Canal

…by the completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1827 and of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal in 1840, linking it with Pittsburgh. Waterpower and transportation supplied by these canals led to Akron’s early development as an industrial centre. The abundant water supply and the arrival of the railroads…

…slow until 1832, when the Ohio and Erie Canal (begun in 1825 to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio River) was completed. In the 1850s railroads increased the community’s commercial and industrial activity. When St. Marys Falls Canal (Soo Canal) between Lakes Superior and Huron was opened in 1855, Cleveland…

…the opening (1832) of the Ohio and Erie Canal, when it became a point of transfer from canal barges to river packets. With the end of the steamboat era it developed as a railway centre; the first railroad arrived in 1853. Bridges now connect the city to South Portsmouth and…