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"Looking at Carroll" Part I / Page 2
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The Ohio Canal was begun in 1825 and completed in 1830. It extended from Cleveland on Lake Erie to Portsmouth on the Ohio River, and the first boat to be towed over the entire length, the Hebron, occasioned great rejoicing. Even before this canal was begun, the boom along the proposed route made the citizens of Lancaster realize they would soon be crippled by lack of transportation. So on February 8, 1826 they organized a company to construct a branch canal to Lancaster. This was known originally as the Lancaster Lateral and later became part of the Hocking Canal.
Selling stock in the new company at twenty-five dollars a share was slow work until the Ohio Canal was completed and Lancaster’s former trade went to Baltimore, Basil and other canal towns. After traffic began to flow on the Ohio Canal in 1831, it was only a year before all the stock was subscribed for the Lancaster Lateral and the contract was let. When it was completed and the first boat was towed into Lancaster on July 4, 1836, a cheering crowd of ten thousand turned out to witness the event. The celebration was accompanied by the booming of cannons, beating of drums and waving of flags, with a free dinner of roast ox for all.
In the meantime, the state contracted to extend the canal from Laancaster to Logan, Nelsonville, Chauncey and Athens, fifty-three miles from Carroll. This portion of the canal was completed on September 4, 1838 and in the same year the Lancaster Lateral was purchased by the state. The name of the canal from Carroll to Athens became the Hocking Canal.
One of the early subscribers to the stock of the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company was William Tong, who was a contractor on the Ohio Canal. He constructed the state dam west of Lockville and shortly after its completion, when the success of the Lancaster Lateral seemed assured, he laid out the town of Carroll. Little is known about Mr. Tong’s early life, but in May, 1805 a marriage licence was issued at the Fairfield County Court House in Lancaster to William Tong and Rebecca Watson. William Tong had a brother Oliver who assisted him in laying out the town site.
The Tong brothers named the new village in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The revered statesman was born September 20, 1737 of Irish Catholic stock and was highly educated in France and England. He died at Baltimore on November 14, 1833 at the age of ninety-six.
The Tong brother’s respect for religion was not limited to any particular faith. They donated the land upon whicch the Methodist Church and parsonage stand, specifying only that it was to be used for religious purposes.They also gave the town its streets, laid out so as to take the most advantage of the canals. Opposite the plot set aside for a church was a triangle piece of land which the Tongs donated as the location for a market house, without which no village of those days was complete. However, the market was never built and the tract has been used as a park, thus preserving the beautiful old maple trees which add to the attractiveness of the village.
The Ohio Canal was begun in 1825 and completed in 1830. It extended from Cleveland on Lake Erie to Portsmouth on the Ohio River, and the first boat to be towed over the entire length, the Hebron, occasioned great rejoicing. Even before this canal was begun, the boom along the proposed route made the citizens of Lancaster realize they would soon be crippled by lack of transportation. So on February 8, 1826 they organized a company to construct a branch canal to Lancaster. This was known originally as the Lancaster Lateral and later became part of the Hocking Canal.
Selling stock in the new company at twenty-five dollars a share was slow work until the Ohio Canal was completed and Lancaster’s former trade went to Baltimore, Basil and other canal towns. After traffic began to flow on the Ohio Canal in 1831, it was only a year before all the stock was subscribed for the Lancaster Lateral and the contract was let. When it was completed and the first boat was towed into Lancaster on July 4, 1836, a cheering crowd of ten thousand turned out to witness the event. The celebration was accompanied by the booming of cannons, beating of drums and waving of flags, with a free dinner of roast ox for all.
In the meantime, the state contracted to extend the canal from Laancaster to Logan, Nelsonville, Chauncey and Athens, fifty-three miles from Carroll. This portion of the canal was completed on September 4, 1838 and in the same year the Lancaster Lateral was purchased by the state. The name of the canal from Carroll to Athens became the Hocking Canal.
One of the early subscribers to the stock of the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company was William Tong, who was a contractor on the Ohio Canal. He constructed the state dam west of Lockville and shortly after its completion, when the success of the Lancaster Lateral seemed assured, he laid out the town of Carroll. Little is known about Mr. Tong’s early life, but in May, 1805 a marriage licence was issued at the Fairfield County Court House in Lancaster to William Tong and Rebecca Watson. William Tong had a brother Oliver who assisted him in laying out the town site.
The Tong brothers named the new village in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The revered statesman was born September 20, 1737 of Irish Catholic stock and was highly educated in France and England. He died at Baltimore on November 14, 1833 at the age of ninety-six.
The Tong brother’s respect for religion was not limited to any particular faith. They donated the land upon whicch the Methodist Church and parsonage stand, specifying only that it was to be used for religious purposes.They also gave the town its streets, laid out so as to take the most advantage of the canals. Opposite the plot set aside for a church was a triangle piece of land which the Tongs donated as the location for a market house, without which no village of those days was complete. However, the market was never built and the tract has been used as a park, thus preserving the beautiful old maple trees which add to the attractiveness of the village.