Quarry Trail

1.2 miles completed today
58.05 miles completed total

Deep Lock Quarry ended up being one of the trails we liked a lot.  It was hilly with lots to looks at and had and interesting history.  In fact, tomorrow we are going to go back and walk along the towpath and look for birds.  Audubon has listed Deep Lock Quarry as an important birding site.  Unfortunately, by the time we got there tonight it was too late and the birds had all gone to bed.  I hope to get there early tomorrow morning and maybe see something I have never seen before.  I will keep my fingers crossed.
Enough about tomorrow, here is what we saw tonight before it got too dark. 

Here is Annie on some of the old mill stones.  Mill stones are scattered throughout the trail.  Look at the size of these things.  They are huge.  I believe these are what were used to mill the oats.

This is lock 28.  It was the deepest lock at 17 feet.  Now it is imhabited by frogs.  I thought it was very fitting to hike this park right after we finished walking the towpath.

This is a stack of stone that is still there when you enter the quarry.  It has been there for as long as I can remember so my guess is it may have been left from when the quarry was used and is not something that the park left. Unless it is left over from some of the early park buildings which is a possibility.

These are the stone walls where the large sandstone blocks were cut from.  Looking around Akron you can spot stones that were cut from this quarry everywhere.  Sometimes they were salvaged from the canal and sometimes they were cut for buildings.  The wall that is at O'Neil Woods that is pictured earlier in my blog is from stones that were salvaged from the original Summit County Jail.  We also saw spring beautys and bloodroot in bloom.  I love that spring is here.  I would have taken pictures of the flowers but since it was dark the blooms had closed up.  Maybe tomorrow.