At the point near the boatyard, where the canal crossed Flint Creek, an aqueduct was built to carry the canal across the creek. On the towpath side, where the two or three mules pulled "tandem" style, a narrow bridge was built sufficiently wide to allow the mules and their driver to walk, perhaps four feet. On the other side was laid a beam, sawed square for foot travelers. So long had this beam been in use that a strip through the center had worn away with the passing of many footsteps, leaving the surface rough and treacherous. This timber was as long as the creek is wide. Just beyond the aqueduct was the dry-dock.
Huntington Herald, Sat. July 7, 1928 Letter to J. Bippus from M. Hawley

Flint Creek flowed behind Huntington College, past Huntington Laboratories, down First Street, where it jogged and followed a path between Market and Franklin streets, to its' mouth east of the Lafountaine street bridge.
Historical Pictures of Huntington County. Huntington Alert Inc. 1988

Huntington earned the nickname of the Lime City because of the many limestone quarries in the community and the surrounding area. The first kiln in the area was built by Michael Houseman in the early 1840's. In the 1870's there were over 30 kilns spread throughout the town. Orders for their products came from far and near. The region's limestone was exhausted shortly after the turn of the 20th century"
Miami Wabash & Erie Canal Harry. G. Black, 1991. page 47

All the houses were log houses except the little stone house at Mr. Day's. It is standing yet. The people were awful rough, many of them were canal hands. There was no church except once in a while when a preacher would pass through and hold a meeting in some one's house. I remember once when dogs were set on a Methodist preacher and he was chased out of town. Oh it was a hard place.
Huntington Herald Jan. 3, 1896 - 93 year old Marlbah Hawley remembers canal

This town, I think, had also been laid-out by Gen. Tipton. It contained but a few houses, and among the principal men of the place were Captain Elias Murray, and one or two of the Helvies.
History of Wabash County. 1884. p. 106

There was removed from the old Masonic cemetery recently, to be used as a pavement, we are told, one of the best monuments placed in it in an early day. It was a marble slab, nicely lettered, erected to the memory of James Cosgrove, a pioneer citizen. Mr. Cosgrove's remains were removed a few years ago to Mt. Hope cemetery, the old Masonic grounds being condemned, but for some reason this monument and several others remained in the old grounds, and are gradually disappearing. Whey the monuments were not removed with the bodies is not explained, but as the removals were largely made under contract, and no relatives of the dead reside here, the matter was probably due to an oversight.
There are some of the older citizens who remember Mr. Cosgrove, and they feel that the conversion of this monument to other uses than intended, is to be classed as vandalism. Mr. Cosgrove was the first lock tender on the canal locks east of Huntington. He was a man warmly esteemed, and met his death in a tragic manner. During the cholera epidemic in 1854-55, a man died with that dread disease in what is now known as the lime kiln district. Cosgrove came to John Kenower to secure a coffin for his remains, and while driving to the home of his dead neighbor his team ran away. Cosgrove was thrown out of his wagon and killed.
Evening Herald. April 11, 1905. Pg. 4. Col 4