Most of the locks were 184 feet long and 36 feet wide, able to handle boats up to 160 feet long. The sandstone locks (along with wood miter gates, rock-filled timber-crib dams and bypass canals with guard gates) created a slackwater navigation system stretching over 90 miles.
Navigation System
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Courtesy Flickr/gb_packards (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Muskingum River Lock
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1837
2000