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Two hundred years ago, an engineering and commercial marvel had its humble beginnings in Butler County, Ohio. When New York Governor DeWitt Clinton broke ground for the Miami and Erie Canal in Middletown, Ohio on July 21, 1825, few could envision the multitude of positive impacts the waterway would have on our region. For 104 years, the canal meandered through the landscape of the county, however its decline and futility had begun decades before its unremarkable closure in 1929. Join Butler County Historical Society Executive Director Brian Smith as he traces the life and death of a once proud human triumph that has all but vanished in this area.
