Hi Betty,
I just read your mail about the 'canalers'. Yes. The Wabash & Erice Canal
was being built throught Pike co. in 1850. It was intended to go to the Ohio
River but the railroad laid track's very close to the canal so they ceased
working on the canal. I lived, as a little girl, close to the Pike co.,
Gibson co. line. I used to walk throught the fields with my family to the
canal and play on the old dredge boat, or what was left of it in about 1936.
I doubt there is anything left of it now!
Joyce DeJarnett Truitt