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Locking Through

The Muskingum River locks fascinate with a combination of science and nature.
By: Mary Reed

“It’s just water and gravity,” says Earl Campfield, a lock technician standing atop the Devola Lock and Dam overlooking the Muskingum River. The 11 locks and 10 dams along the Muskingum River were completed in 1841. Locking through by boat is an experience not to be missed. In fact, if you travel anywhere else you will miss it; the Muskingum River Locks and Dams are the only working hand-operated navigational lock system in the United States.

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Back in Time in Brown County
Georgetown’s Grant Days celebrate the eighteenth president’s impact on America
By: Brad Fitzpatrick

For one weekend in April Georgetown’s Main Street is devoid of cars and is replaced instead with the clatter of hooves and the echoing crack of pistol fire. Spectators crowd around the barricaded boundaries to view the action as period actors replay the events of John Hunt Morgan’s historic raid of Georgetown Village that took place in 1863 complete with a gunfight and chase through the streets. The reenactment of Morgan’s raid is part of a festival that celebrates the role Brown County played in the Civil War and in forming the eighteenth president of the United States—Ulysses S. Grant.

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