Tinkers Creek Aqueduct

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{{Infobox bridge

|bridge_name = Tinkers Creek Aqueduct

|image = Tctcaque.JPG

|caption =

|carries = Ohio and Erie Canal

|crosses = Tinkers Creek (Cuyahoga River)

|locale = Canal Road and
Tinkers Creek Road,
Valley View,
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

|maint = National Park Service, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

|id =

|designer = 1905 re-build engineers: C.E. Perkins, Columbus; T.D.P., Akron{{cite web | title=Improvement of the Northern Division of the Ohio Canal (1905) | publisher=Cleveland Memory, Cleveland State University Libraries | url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/canal/unrau174.htm }}

|design =

|material = wood deck and sides,
steel trusses over
Ashlar-sandstone piers

|spans = 2

|pierswater = 1

|mainspan =

|length = Overall (including approaches): {{convert|90|ft|m}}{{cite web | title=Towpath Trail bridge finished | publisher=Ohio.Com of Akron Beacon Journal | url=http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/ohio_travel/9080546.html }}
Each span: about {{convert|40|ft|m}}

|width = Interior: {{convert|22|ft|m}}{{cite web | title=Tinkers Creek Aqueduct drawing | publisher=Cleveland Memory, Cleveland State University Libraries | url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/canal/unrau175.htm | format=JPG}}

|height =

|load = {{convert|16500|lb|kg}} per running {{convert|1|ft|m}}

|clearance = UnlimitedTinkers Creek Aqueduct on the Ohio and Erie Canal has no overhead structural members, so has unlimited overhead clearance; elsewhere along the Ohio and Erie Canal, other overhead bridges, overhead power lines and trees limit vertical clearance.

|below = {{convert|0|ft|m}}

|traffic =

|begin = 1826

|complete = 1827
Re-built: 1845 and 1905{{cite web|title=Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail Tour, Tinkers Creek Aqueduct |publisher=National Park Service, Cuyahoga Valley National Park |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/cuva/visitonline/towpathtour/tinkers.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603143401/http://www.nps.gov/archive/cuva/visitonline/towpathtour/tinkers.htm |archivedate=June 3, 2008 }}

|open = 1827 until
1913 flood
subsequent disuse
2007-? reconstruction project

|closed =

|toll =

|map_image =

|map_caption =

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|coordinates = {{coord|41|21|53.5|N|81|36|31.7|W|region:US-OH_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
Elevation: {{convert|610|ft|m}}{{Gnis|1073893}}

|extra =

{{Infobox NRHP

| embed = yes

| name = Tinkers Creek Aqueduct

| nrhp_type = nhldcp

| nocat = yes

| partof = Ohio and Erie Canal

| partof_refnum = 66000607

| image = Figure79.jpg

| caption = Tinkers Creek Aqueduct{{cite web

| title = Historic Photograph of Tinkers Creek Aqueduct

| publisher = National Park Service, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

| url = http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/Cuyahoga/figure79.htm

| format = JPEG

}}{{cite web

| title = Cuyahoga Valley National Park figures

| publisher = National Park Service, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

| url = http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/Cuyahoga/figureList.htm

}}

| location = Valley View,
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

| built = 1825-1827;
rebuilt 1845 and 1905

| architect =

| architecture =

| designated_nrhp_type = November 13, 1966{{cite web | title=Ohio and Erie Canal TR Tinkers Creek Aqueduct | publisher=National Park Service, National Historic Landmarks Program | url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=442&ResourceType=District | work=National Historic Landmark summary listing | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619161626/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=442&ResourceType=District | archivedate=2008-06-19 }}

| added = December 11, 1979

| area = less than one acre

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000640|title=Ohio and Erie Canal TR}}

| refnum = 79000296{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}} }}

Tinkers Creek Aqueduct is an aqueduct that was constructed to bridge the Ohio and Erie Canal over Tinkers Creek near its confluence with the Cuyahoga River in Valley View, Ohio. It is a relatively rare surviving example of an Ohio and Erie Canal aqueduct. It was originally constructed in 1825-1827 by, and re-built due to flood damage in 1845 and 1905.{{cite web

| title = Tinkers Creek Aqueduct blueprints and photos

| publisher = U.S. Library of Congress

| url = http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/oh/oh1600/oh1631/photos/

}} Tinkers Creek Aqueduct was included in a National Historic Landmark district established in 1966, and it was separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.{{cite web

| title = National Register of Historic Places

| publisher = National Park Service, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

| url = http://www.nps.gov/archive/cuva/history/NatRegst.htm

}}{{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Ohio and Erie Canal|url={{NHLS url|id=66000607}} |format=pdf|date=February 28, 1975 |last=Mendinghall |first=Joseph S. |publisher=National Park Service}} The original Tinkers Creek Aqueduct was a wood plank, steel truss, and Ashlar-sandstone structure constructed in 1827, south of the present aqueduct's location. Cuyahoga River and Tinkers Creek flooding caused continual damage to the original aqueduct, so successive structures were built in 1845 and 1905 in the present location. Today, Tinkers Creek Aqueduct is the only aqueduct which remains of the four original aqueducts in the Cuyahoga Valley. Of Furnace Run Aqueduct, Mill Creek Aqueduct, Peninsula Aqueduct, and (? Yellow Creek ?) Aqueduct; Mill Creek Aqueduct, of newer construction, is the only aqueduct which still carries Ohio and Erie Canal water. After 102 years of flooding, weathering, and deterioration, Tinkers Creek Aqueduct was removed in 2007. The National Park Service is currently working on Phase II of the project to reconstruct it from newer materials.