Author Archives: Donna Webb

A popular meeting place for youth in the years after the closing of the lock system and until the early 70’s . Here, at the abandoned lock site between the Ohio Power plant and the … more →

Place where tools and supplies were kept for the line boats. that did maintenance on the canal. One was located between Lock 14 and Lock 13.

(Quercus rubra) Several large trees are located on the slope southwest of Lock 16 and on the slope northwest of Hubbard St. The wood was commonly used for framing buildings.

Any of certain American venomous snakes having a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. A smaller form known as the Massassaugas or … more →

A braced framework of timbers, piles, or steelwork , usually of considerable height, for carrying a railroad over a depression. There are two over the Cascade Locks, both of steel. The lower trestle (appr 300 … more →

(Procyon lotor) Nocturnal mammals, omnivores who eat frogs, fish and crayfish as well as birds, mice, insects, earthworms, fruits, nuts and about anything else edible. They like to live in trees near water. Chiefly gray, … more →