Kent Ohio, railroads, P&O Canal & Cuyahoga River

Taken from the old stone Main Street (Ohio State Route 59) Bridge; a very brief look at Kent and over a short section of the increasingly beautiful Cuyahoga River there, and some of what remains of Kent (originally Franklin Mills) Ohio's most historic structures:
1) The stone arch dam and partially washed out, partially reconstructed ruins of the adjacent canal lock, plus some of the mere prism (ditch) remaining from the Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal, (To read more about how the dam and lock ruins were recently made into "Heritage Park," click here: http://www.kentohio.org/reports/dam.asp )
2) The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad's Akron-Barberton Cluster Railway (1990) (the ex-Conrail (1976) ex-Erie Lackawanna Railroad (1960) ex-Erie Railroad (1889) ex-New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (1880) ex-Atlantic and Great Western Railroad tracks (1863) and Depot (1875, now the Pufferbelly Restaurant;))
3) The CSX Railroad (1980) (the ex-Chessie System/B&O Railroad (1973) ex-Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1890) ex-Pittsburgh & Western Railroad (1884) ex-Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Chicago Railway (1881).) ...and of course,
4) The old stone bridge itself, which is essentially unseen in this video because it's where we stood. :o)

Category:

Education

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• Kent
• Ohio
• Cuyahoga
• River
• Pennsylvania
• Canal
• P&O
• CSX
• B&O
• A&GW
• Erie
• Lackawanna
• W&LE
• ABC
• railroad
• Pufferbelly
• dam
• lock

[klingoncelt]

Actually, that's West Main, not route 59. It connects to 59 at the top of the hill to the west.

[DoJoRa3]

@klingoncelt

You're right. I guess I'm just old enough to both know better AND forget. Rte. 59 now bypasses downtown via Haymaker Parkway.

[slobomotion]

Thanks, greetings from France; I have a lot of bittersweet memories of Kent.

[gjhgjh]

Great video and uploader commentary. Thanks.

[garrettjoey1]

ohio is a cool place i live there!

[wksufreshair]

Thanks for the video. wow a lot has changed. I dont remember any park area under the bridge. Looking towards Stow on old 59 I remember a Buick dealer on the left A Sohio (I worked there a few years ) and Bisslers furniture store on the right and no parking on the bridge.

[ohiocanalgirl]

neato

[434missjames]

It is cool to see this, I just just been there and stood on that bridge it was -14 degrees and covered in snow. Very pretty

[MarkCox73]

Originally it was Rt 5 before the put in Haymaker Parkway. It wasn't the hippie liberals that got the damn removed it was the EPA who said the flow had to be improved if more houses were to be built.. The REAL reason they took out the damn in Kent and the one in Monroe Falls was to allow more sewer flow from the treatment plants so more houses could be built hence more tax $.

[nervis5]

Nice video...thank you.