Oct. 1—METAMORA — For almost 50 years, crowds of people have gathered along the Whitewater canal each fall to celebrate Canal Days. Canal Days is the busiest single weekend of the year for Historic ...

METAMORA, Ind. (WISH) — Facing funding woes for more than a decade, this summer will be the last at a state historic site that recalls a time canals nearly bankrupted Indiana. Whitewater Canal State ...

METAMORA, Ind. – Often billed as Indiana’s Canal Town, Metamora boasts a strong tourism pull with its historic grist mill and covered aqueduct that takes visitors back to an era before railroads. A ...

Historic grist mill at the Whitewater Canal State Historic Site in Metamora. Photo provided by Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites METAMORA, Ind. – On June 12, the Indiana State Museum and ...

METAMORA, Ind. (AP) -- Using a tape measure, a camera and copious notes, four Ball State University graduate students are preserving a part of the history of Whitewater Canal, a 19th Century ...

There was a time when canals were part of the roadways of America east of the Mississippi River, connecting the small towns and villages to the big cities and allowing merchants and farmers to move ...

ransportation in Ohio was limited by weather and bad roads in the early 19th century. In 1820, the U.S. Census reported that 581,434 citizens lived in rural communities or farms across the state.