Ohioville Lock 57 park and boat launch and looked across the Beaver Creek

Photo caption: “If you have ever been at the Ohioville Lock 57 park and boat launch and looked across the Beaver Creek to the other side and saw a large round concrete structure with an attached chute and wondered what it is. Here’s you answer. At one time there was a large crane on that concrete that unloaded coal barges into train cars that were then taken to the Youngstown steel mills. After the trains stopped the crane was removed and the chute was added and coal mined at strip mines locally was dumped by dump trucks down the chute into barges to be shipped on the Ohio River.” 1935.