Many leading Hoosiers saw canals as a solution to the state’s transportation problems. The Erie Canal had opened in upstate ...

This account traces the route of the Wabash and Erie Canal from Fort Wayne to Roanoke and within the city of Huntington to beyond the Forks of the Wabash. The path of the canal roughly followed the ...

Last month’s accounts of Mary Mercy Hawley and her youth spent along the Wabash and Erie Canal invites a more complete examination of the canal, its path through Huntington County, and its history.