Two River Towns: McConnelsville and Malta : Marker #3-58
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N 39° 38.597 W 081° 50.767
17S E 427400 N 4388508
Located just south of downtown McConnelsville at Lock #7
Waymark Code: WM72FE
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2009
Views: 9
McConnelsville and Malta are two towns that prospered because of the locks and dams built on the Muskingum River from 1836 to 1841. Settlers came to both towns in 1817. In the 1820s and 1830s, flatboats carried grain, lumber, and livestock down the river. The locks and dams made the Muskingum navigable to steamboats, and both towns grew rapidly. Malta was the home of the Brown-Manly Plow Company, a leading maker of farm equipment in the 1800s. Brown-Manly depended on steamboats to bring in raw materials and to take products to markets. Mills at McConnelsville ground grain and shipped flour north to the Ohio Canal and to the east coast, and south to the Ohio River and the Mississippi trade.
Marker Number: 3-58
County: Morgan
Significance of Location: Place
Bicentenial Mark: no
Website address: [Web Link]
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
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