Conesville, OH: Lost/NKP(W&LE) Depot and Ohio & Erie Canal

(Satellite, an RV trailer uses the foundation as a parking pad.)

Ohio & Erie Canal Overview

There was a lot of coal mining in this area.

Ronnie Amore posted
The Conesville RR Depot, Coshocton County OH. from early 1900's. Nickel Plate Railroad line, I believe it was.

Scott Reynolds: Ohio & Erie Canal town

I got an old topo map to see where the canal was. The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis is what we know as the Big Four.

1908/61 Conesville Quad @ 62,500

This view not only shows the remnants of the foundation, it shows that the bridge still has a truss span.

Street View, Apr 2025

I was surprised because the satellite image looks like the steel girder bridge that we see in the foreground of the bridge in the above view. After I fired up Google Earth and found an image with no leaves, I understood what was happening. The truss spans are over the flood plain. I wonder if a flood and logjam took out the spans over the river.

Google Earth, Mar 2019

I looked on aerial photos for the depot. I could not find it on a high resolution photo or the oldest photo available. Even though the street view makes them obsolete, I'll include them anyhow because of the canal.

Apr 23, 1960 @ 29,000; AR1VABA00040017

Sep 1, 1948 @ 66,965; ARB000MC00B0122

Ohio & Erie Canal Overview

Treelines mark the location of the canal out of town, and I added red lines to show its path through town.

Satellite plus Paint