In 2021 we were asked to produce a video about the Hocking Canal that once ran from Carroll, Ohio through southeastern Ohio to Athens, Ohio. At Carroll the Hocking Canal tied into The Ohio and Erie Canal which ran from Lake Erie down to the Ohio River.
On this video we follow the entire course that the Hocking Canal once took and we look at what little remains of the canal today. With cameras on aircraft and drones we overfly the former canal route, and with Historian Tom O'Grady of the Southeast Ohio History Center in Athens, Ohio and Author and Historian David Meyers we take a close up look at what remains of this once great and important transportation route that, as a part of the Ohio Canal System, was truly the super highway of it's day. DVD's of this video are available from the Hocking County Historical Society in Logan, Ohio. Purchase information is at the end of the video. Proceeds from the DVD's help to support the Hocking County Historical Society and the Hocking Hills Tourism Association, both non profit organizations. Come along with us