Welcome to ohiowaterways.com!   If you are here, it is likely that you are working on a project with me and are contemplating making a contribution to the site.

Ohiowaterways describes life along the Ohio Canal and the Little Cuyahoga River that run through Akron, Ohio.  The form of the site is an illustrated dictionary.   The dictionary contains information about plants, animals, built things, organizations, and culture and landscape found along the canal and the river.  The dictionary is open ended, that is, there can be more entries added and as many different kinds of illustrations of the entries as are presented by participants.  A single definition can have many different illustrations.  Some could be drawings, others photographs or videos.

If you have an idea for the site please contact me.  If you have a definition or an illustration you may email it to me by using the address to the left.

Thank you,

Donna Webb

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High bush cranberry

(Viburnum opulus) A native shrub that has white flowers in spring and clear red fruit in fall.

Hoggie

Also called a ”mule skinner”. Canal slang for the person who drove the tow animals.

Honeysuckle

(Lonicera cf. morrowi) A spring flowering, American shrub. It was popular in yards and gardens.

Horse

(Equus caballus) A large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous mammal domesticated by man since a prehistoric period. Used as a beast of burden , or draft animal, or for riding. Sometimes used to pull canal boats. Were more … more →

Hydraulic

Pertaining to the movement pressure, or other physical properties of a liquid system. A machine or system operated by the weight, movement or pressure of liquid.