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The Portage Lakes
 Every year, at Portge Lakes, they put on a boat parade for the 4th of July celebration. Above is one of the entries from this year, decorated like a viking ship.
Portage Lakes is a series of small lakes, connected by channels and man made canals. There are 9 connected lakes, and 4 others that feed in or out of the system to the Ohio Canal, and Muskingum river. The 9 lakes have 21 miles of shoreline, and were built as a feeder system to the Ohio canal to help maintain the 4ft depth of the canal for transport of goods South to the Ohio river.

Originally, the lakes fed the canal, and served as drainage and flood control for the area.
The shoreline became populated with mostly small summer cottages, a few hotels, canoe liveries, and several small restaurants. The cottages were built with mainly summer occupancy in mind, and there was no building code. Gradually, the old summer cottages gave way to larger, and more permanent housing.


 Some cottages were demolished, and some were merely "built around", or added on to, leaving the original core structures intact. This was done, mainly to comply with the new ... more

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