Jack Gieck, "Early Akron's Industrial Valley: A History of the Cascade Locks" English | ISBN: 087338928X | 2007 | 96 pages | EPUB | 5 MB A pictorial history of a piece of Ohio's canal heritage
In this study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian Jack Gieck examines the story of this remarkable lock system, including a look at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the precipitous terrain to found one of the first industrial centers in the American Midwest. Read more
