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Our Neighbors, Huber Heights, Ohio

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Home Inspector with Home Inspection and Investor Services, Clayton

Huber Heights

Carriage Hill Lock

 

 

This photo is of a lock in the canal that was begun on July 21, 1825 from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.  Here the canal passed through an area now called Huber Heights, Ohio.  Huber Heights is one of the newest incorporated cities in Montgomery County.  This lock is in Carriage Hill Metro Park, one of the 5 Metro Parks in the county.

 

Huber Heights was incorporated in 1981 and was formally known as Wayne Township. This is where a developer name Charles Huber had a dream of building a community of house (all brick) to serve as homes for the returning veterans.  Finally, starting to build in the early 1950's and by the late 1950's Huber Heights (as the development was called) had the distinction of being the largest community of all brick homes in the US. His company built 10,707 homes in this area between 1950 and 1992.Huber Heights Map

Huber Heights has grown rapidly since its beginning and now has a population of over 40,000.

Huber Heights is also home to one of the power house atheletic departments in the state.  Named the Wayne Warriors they are a force to deal with in high school sports every year.  They are among the few consistently excellent football teams in Ohio.

Jack Gilleland

Home Inspection Services, Clayton

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Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

Very fascinating historical (or is it "hysterical") stuff.  I need to ask a very blonde question however.  The gates on that lock don't look very leak resistant. . .How did they keep the water from leaking through?

Aug 06, 2010 10:36 AM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Jack,

Nice local feature. These are good to post because we need people to know more about our communities.

Aug 06, 2010 11:41 AM
Jack Gilleland
Home Inspection and Investor Services, Clayton - Clayton, OH

I think they were more water tight 150 some years ago.  ha ha

Thanks Steven.  I'm trying to get them all in my service area.

 

Aug 07, 2010 08:57 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

I grew up in Montgomery County!

 

 

 

Maryland...

Aug 07, 2010 11:08 AM
Jack Gilleland
Home Inspection and Investor Services, Clayton - Clayton, OH

Me too Jay

 

 

Ohio

Aug 08, 2010 04:02 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I lived in Montgomery County in the 1980s.

 

 

 

 

Ohio. 

I sold a couple of homes in Huber Heights ... in the late 1980s. One was on Dalmation Drive I think.  I have a Huber Heights scar on my knee...from one of the homes I sold, not Dalmation Drive. 

I never saw the lock when I lived in the Dayton area. I lived near Huber South which is in Moraine and Miami Township (or was in both back then for all I know more has been annexed) I am not sure I sold any of those though I remember showing them.

Aug 09, 2010 06:24 AM
Jack Gilleland
Home Inspection and Investor Services, Clayton - Clayton, OH

I always lived north and west of Dayton (Clayton/Englewood and in Trotwood), well except for the 15 years I spent in Cincinnati (Restoring 200 year old homes).

Aug 09, 2010 09:57 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Canals were hugely important to the early economic development of the country.  Mr. Washington wanted a canal all along the west side of the Potomac River (Virginia).  Of course he wanted to facilitate the economy of his state.  He lost out to a canal on the east side (Maryland) which, of course, is known as the C&O.  Yep, it went all the way to you!

Aug 10, 2010 12:52 AM
Jim Frimmer
HomeSmart Realty West - San Diego, CA
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist

That's a canal lock? Quite interesting, and rather pretty, too. Is it a state historical point of interest. Out here I think it would be.

Aug 18, 2010 04:07 PM
Jack Gilleland
Home Inspection and Investor Services, Clayton - Clayton, OH

Jay, I think(!) I remember seeing that in Cin. or the extension of it. Pigs from Cin. went east for the coast.

Jim, yep there are so many (granted not all are in that good of condition) locks that their significance is lost in the number.  The erie canal rose some 300+ feet from Lake erie to the Ohio River. Amazing they dug that thing by hand.

Aug 20, 2010 09:39 AM