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Five Mile Lock

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Five Mile Lock was so named because this lock along the Ohio Canal was five miles from downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1819, Jeremiah Gates and brother, Nathaniel, built a sawmill at this location.[1] This pre-dates the Five Mile Lock by several years.

This was also the site of the Austin Powder Company and one of the most powerful explosions in Cleveland history which rocked the valley and city on March 16, 1875.

When the Harvard-Denison Bridge was built in 1916 (verify date), the heyday of the canal system was long gone and the Five Mile Lock was buried.


Footnotes

  1. "Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland", Chapter VII, "Brooklyn"
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