Lockville Legends - a living wide spot in the road-with a silent colorful history dating from the 1830's.A time capsule of Lockville Ohio written in 2007 by Rich Shull (former resident)and by other members of the community. This is a living history project, please feel free to join in or write a piece of your own. Please be kind and keep deep personal issues to a minimum.
Lockville Ohio was established in a land grant in the 1840s (?) the land grant is rumored to have connection to Thomas Jefferson. (hence the near by Jefferson Road)? Lockville was home of the some of the last canal locks on the Ohio and Erie Canal. Further on down the line from Lockville was the village of Lockbourne, they had the last locks of the canal before it dumped into the Scioto River.Lockville is located in Ohio Usa and is 30 miles SE of Columbus between Canal Winchester and Carroll Ohio. Lockville today (2007) still has 7 canal locks still mostly visible and in reasonable repair left over from the Ohio and Eire Canal.
The Lockville Park preserves 3 locks and hosts a covered bridge moved there in 1967 when the bridge was removed from service. The bridge now spans the remnants of the canal in a very picturesque park. Seemingly hundreds and thousands of people pass by Lockville every day mostly on the highway that by passes (US. 33) the town but even those that drive threw it miss the details the well hidden details. Many houses are log cabins built in the 1840's and today many have modern sidings and have additions to them but remove a bit of siding and plaster and your in the 1800's. Lockville once had a Stage Coach Inn that still stands (private residence) today. Perhaps the current owners are unaware of its history? It once hosted a silent picture movie house a church and a one room school house. ( the current church) . On the edge of town was Jefferson Springs Bottle water plant. (Samuel's Property) In the 1920's and before the Interburban (traction line) also went threw town and had a pick up in Lockville. It went from Lancaster to Groveport and on to Columbus. The noted Fruit Farm Hill over looks Lockville and has been a favorite Bicyclist challenge for years and is the highest point in Ohio between there and Lake Erie. (but not the highest point in Ohio)
The residents and former residents and those that passed threw on a regular basis might enjoy a look back to the place that many wanted to leave so bad and the onlookers from the web might get a chuckle out of the antics of a super small town. Please read over the details of our community and e mail me with more details If you have them. This is kind of the Garrison Keeler (NPR, Parrie Home Companion) saga of Lockville.
Feel free to add your part to our Lockville history by adding a comment to this blog or my writing me directly . Best Rich Shull rsschull@aol.com
As time goes by I wish to add documents and pictures If you have any please let me know. thanks... Rich
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In 1965, on finishing Harvard doctoral studies, I accepted a prodessorship at oSU but looked for housing around Canal Winchester. I had a contract on a Canal Winchester house but was then shown the Lockville property: 15 acres, a half-mile of the Ohio Erie canal and the old bottling works, remodeled into a residence. I was immediately smitten by the property and purchased it. The water for the bottling works still supplied our water and I built an outdoor pool for swimming. My family of seven, five children from 2-8 years old, movedin Sept. 1, 1965. I was given a set of medical equipment to set up an office in an ujpstairs apartment and began seeing patients two nights a week, quite apart from my primary work, establishing pediatric nuclear medicine at Columbus Children's Hospital. I researched the history of the canal and trod the mule track bedside it with my children.
During the next five years I served the people of Lockville as family doctor but especially served the needs of . teens.
We swam in Walnut Creek, had cattle and sheep on the land, and I refurbished a 1936 John Deere tractor to 'farm' the land. We had a garden, an orchard and celebrated parties on the broad porcelain-tiled expanse of the old bottling room. I collected old cars and two buses, one of which drove to California and back in 1970.
We were obviously outsiders to this old and established community but I was accepted and my medical services were welcomed. I tried to preserve tradition (since I had just moved from an 1832 Boston home)) and joined actively in Lancaster Fairfield County affairs including the county fairs and hospital, where I delivered baby of a Nigerian friend and rescued a Nigerian girl from the 1966 Nigerian civil war..
I remained in Lockville until 1972, when a domestic dispute led to my move to Missouri, where 42 years ago this weekend i met my present wife of 41 years at the free clinic I established in Columbia, Missouri.
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