Ohio History Journal

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THE LAST OHIO CANAL BOAT

THE LAST OHIO CANAL BOAT

 

 

BY ALBERT N. DOERSCHUK

 

Amid mammoth sweet corn and prosaic cabbage,

near the now peaceful and dead port of Bolivar (once

a great trading and manufacturing town noted for its

life and the dash of its inhabitants), nestles the last

canal boat, now a poor squatter's shelter. Long years

ago forced over the banks of the canal during a flood,

this boat was abandoned where it lies, and now is the

last1 remaining specimen of the all important inland

water carriers of passengers and freight that played so

 

1 Probably the last in this section. Other sections claim to have the last

canal boat.

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