For your Attention!

Click below for tour info and registration form

See You in Defiance,April, 19, 20,& 21 2024!! Tour information

​now available!! Sign up for the full package, get a $5 discount!! Not a member? All are welcome to participate in our programs!!

​​​Upcoming Canal Society Events


April 19, 20 & 21, 2024 - Junction to Defiance and                                                   Grand Rapids Spring Tour


July 13, 2024 - Columbus Board of Trustees Meeting                              & Mini Tour

 

​Fall 2024 - Date TBD, Cincinnati Fall Tour


November 9, 2024 -  Akron Trustees Meeting

                                   & Mini Tour


Other Canal Related News

From the Pennsylvania Society click below;

.Canal Currents Issue 206_Winter 2024 1.pdf

thE CANAL SOCIETY OF OHIO IS A 

VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 1961,

DEDICATED TO REstoration, EDUCATION, 
RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION RELATED TO
OHIO'S HISTORIC CANALS.

As you can see from the canal origin marker photos above, next year, in July of 2025, will be the 200th Anniversary of the beginning of Ohio's Canal System Construction. Look for more information here in the future about celebration plans!!.

OUr Activities are open to all, and include


Two daylong bus tours every year, in Spring and Fall,    of canal-era sites across Ohio and nearby states;

Three half-day tours every year in Spring,

Summer and Fall;

Publication of Towpaths, our quarterly journal of historical research;

State-wide support for historical markers, educational programs and artifact preservation, through grants and volunteer involvement.

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The Canal Society of Ohio Inc.