> -----Original Message-----
> From: Becker, Dan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:50 AM
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> Subject: Re: [BP] Coon huntin'
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> To the other side of me was Lock number 1 of an impressive
> series of 5 locks that stepped the Miami Erie Canal down 67
> feet in a half mile from the 24-mile long Loramie Summit (fed
> by Grand Lake St. Mary's, the largest man-made lake in the
> world when built) into the Great Miami River basin. Across
> the street was the Sidney Feeder Canal, bringing additional
> flow of the Great Miami down from its head at Port Jefferson.
Nice pic here:
http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/canal/lockington.htm
My house was to the left.
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