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Title	Canal Boat Repair Bucket and Box
Subject	Transportation Canals Boxes Pails
Place	Piqua (Ohio) Miami County (Ohio)
Description	This canal boat repair bucket box included tar or pitch used for sealing holes, while the repair box contained fibers used for plugging leaks in the boat's hull. The bucket is 10" x 5" (25.4 x 12.7 cm). The repair box measures 17.5" x 9.5" x 7.5" (44.45 x 24.13 x 19.05 cm). The Miami and Erie Canal extended from Toledo to Cincinnati and took twenty years to build. Construction began in 1825. Workers were paid thirty cents a day to dig the canal and many suffered from disease. The peak of the canal, called the Loramie Summit, was between the locks in New Bremen and Lockington, just north of Piqua. The Miami and Erie Canal played a major role in the development of Piqua and the surrounding area. Industries such as barrel making, pork packing, and boat building all contributed to Piqua's economic growth. By the time the canal was completed in 1845, however, railroads began to replace the slower canal boats.
Date of Original	1830 - 1890 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution	Flesh Public Library and Museum
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om315_907211_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om315_907211_001.tif
Image Height	1688
Image Width	1252
File Size	279.712 KB

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