(Matteuccia struthiopteris) A tall and elegant fern found in the neglected garden plot northwest of the Mustill Store. Its graceful bipinnatifid fronds grow in a circle from an erect rootstock. The sporophylls are pinnate with … more
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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Overshot Wheel
Used to harness water power. A vertical water wheel the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets and is turned by water that shoots over the top, filling the buckets on the farther … more
Pachysandra
(Pachysandra terminalis) An evergreen ground cover from Japan found in a neglected lawn SW of Hickory Street, NW of Maple and NE of the Cuyahoga Valley RR line. It was uncommon before l900.
Packet Boat
A boat for carrying passengers on the canal. Though some were trim, sleek vessels carrying 50-75 passengers others were merely freight boats with the cargoholds boarded up and windows cut in. Traveled 4mph or up … more
Paint Works
A paint factory located above Lock 12.