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Belgians
Settlements in OHIO DURING
the Civil War ERA
The Belgian
settlers, before the Civil War, followed the water ways in an era of rivers and
canals but scant railroads. They went to Ohio, either by New Orleans and
upriver, or by New York to the Great Lakes, and along the Ohio and Erie Canal
to the Ohio River.
- The Ohio
and Erie canal, was a canal constructed in the 1820s and early 1830s. It
connected Akron, Summit County, with the Cuyahoga River near its mouth on Lake
Erie in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and a few years later, with the Ohio River
near Portsmouth, Scioto County
- The canal known as
the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination
of four canals: the Miami and Erie Canal from the Maumee River near Toledo,
Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction to
Terre Haute, Indiana, the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to
Worthington, Indiana (Point Commerce), and the Central Canal from Worthington
to Evansville, Indiana.
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