{"nrhp_refnum":"79000296","name":"Tinkers Creek Aqueduct","other_names":["See Also:Ohio and Erie Canal"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Tinkers Creek","address_restricted":false,"city":"Valley View","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.36475454400005,"lon":-81.60889398999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Engineering","Transportation","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-span canal aqueduct that carried the Ohio & Erie Canal over Tinkers Creek in Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, dated to 1825-1827. It is a structure of less than one acre.","why_significant":"It is one of three aqueducts on the section of the Ohio and Erie Canal between Akron and Cleveland, and the best preserved of the three. It is part of the Ohio and Erie Canal thematic group and is associated with a canal considered important to regional development.","narrative":"Tinkers Creek Aqueduct is a canal structure in Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, built between 1825 and 1827 to carry the Ohio & Erie Canal over Tinkers Creek. It has two spans supported by dressed sandstone abutments and piers. Metal trusses, probably added around 1905 to replace the original wooden supports, carry a wooden trough that held the canal waterway. Tie beams running between the two central piers appear to be a modern addition. The aqueduct sits in a rural river valley beside the Canal Road truss bridge over the creek. It is one of three aqueducts on the stretch of canal between Akron and Cleveland, and it is the best preserved of the three. Its listing recognizes it as a surviving piece of the canal system and as a historic civil engineering landmark. State records describe its condition as good, and the State of Ohio's public works department owns it.","period_of_significance":"1825-1827","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is recorded as good; the structure is publicly owned and open to the public without restriction, and is visible from a public road.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.627583-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79000296.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000296/c72c2ada4a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000296/c72c2ada4a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Momopanda4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tinkers_Creek_Aqueduct_(III).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Momopanda4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tinkers_Creek_Aqueduct_(III).JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000607","name":"Ohio and Erie Canal","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/ohio-and-erie-canal-66000607/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984706","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkers_Creek_Aqueduct","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7808345"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/tinkers-creek-aqueduct-79000296/"}