Lockport (city), New York
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Location in Niagara County and the state of New York.
State New York Lockport is a town/city in Niagara County, New York, United States.
It is so-named from a set of Erie Canal locks inside the city. Lockport is the governmental center of county of Niagara County and is surrounded by the town of Lockport.
Lockport 1839, by William Henry Bartlett The New York State Legislature authorized the Erie Canal's assembly in April 1816.
The route proposed by surveyors was to traverse an region in central Niagara County, New York, which was then "uncivilized" and no-charge of White settlers.
By December 1820, when the exact locale of the step locks had been determined, the region that would turn into Lockport was owned by only fifteen men, many of whom were Quakers.
The canal reached Lockport in 1824, but the locks were not instead of until 1825.
The workers remained in Lockport after the culmination of the locks, giving the town/city a heavy Celtic influence still discernible today, especially in the Lowertown and North Lockport neighborhoods.
The town/city of Lockport was incorporated in 1865.
The Erie Canal was supplanted by the larger New York State Barge Canal in 1918, and the famous south "flight of five" locks was replaced by two much larger locks E34 and E35.
In recent years enhance officials and private businesses have made an accomplishment to incorporate Lockport history into a county-wide or nationwide tourist attraction.
This includes the culmination of the Canal Discovery Center, the Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Ride tour, and the Lockport Locks and Erie Canal Cruises.
Local officials are seeking state grants to reconstruct the historic "flight of five" and make it a living history site complete with boat rides and reenactors.
Published reports state a living history site in Lockport marketed as a day trip from Niagara Falls could draw thousands to Lockport each year.
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Lockport's biggest employer is General Motors Components, the former Harrison Radiator Corporation, which was established locally in 1912 and which became a division of General Motors Corporation in 1918.
The current double lift Lockport Lock is left in the distance with the northern "Flight of Five" to its right.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.6 square miles (22.4 km ), of which 8.5 square miles (22.1 km ) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km ) (1.39%) is water.
The Erie Canal passes through the center of the city, turning south toward Tonawanda Creek.
Original northern five step lock structure crossing the Niagara Escarpment at Lockport, now without gates and used as a cascade for excess water.
Double 24 1 2-foot-high (7.5 m), 40-foot-wide (12 m) undivided locks are to the left which replaced the initial southern "Flight of Five" lock structure Lockport is at the junction of a several major truck roads, including NY Route 78 (Transit Road), NY Route 31, NY Route 77 and NY Route 93.
Lockport lies in the 716 Area Code.
The Lockport Locks and Erie Canal Cruises boat rides are offered on the Erie Canal, with one proceeding upward through the undivided locks for a short cruise, and returning to pass downstream under two lift bridges and then returning to the docks.
The Lockport Erie Canal Museum is positioned in an old lock control structure between the undivided Locks 34 & 35 and the remaining initial "Flight of Five" Locks spillway and contains historic photographs, maps, engineering drawings and antique machinery.
The Canal Discovery Center is homed in an old church about 100 yards to the west of the locks.
Lockport has the widest bridge (399' wide x 129' length) in North America which spans the canal to the southwest of the locks.
The Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Ride tour can be taken near the locks.
The Niagara County Historical Society positioned at 215 Niagara Street.
Ida Fritz park plays host to the Taste of Lockport every August and to a Cruise Night every Monday amid the summer.
Lockport has recently added a new ice rink for the Clarence Mustangs and Lockport Express called Cornerstone Arena.
There are five wards in the city, resulting in five aldermen plus one alderman-at-large, who is propel by the entire city.
Tucker was propel mayor of the town/city of Lockport; he was later reelected in 2007 and 2011.
City of Lockport Common Council President and 2nd Ward Alderwoman Anne Mc - Caffrey replaced Tucker as interim mayor and was sworn in on February 24, 2014.
Batten, former New York State Treasurer James Jackson, Jr., former US Congressman, Mayor of Lockport Pound, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Campbell, former New York State Senator Ellsworth, former New York State Senator Mark Hopkins, Jr., 1813 1878, lawyer and businessman who lived in Reynolds Basin (east of Gasport in Niagara County) and later Lockport from c.
Washington Hunt, former Governor of New York Miller, American prosecutor at Nuremberg War-Crimes trials; member of United States House of Representatives 1951 1965; Republican National Committee Chairman 1961 1964; Republican Party Vice President nominee on 1964 Goldwater-Miller ticket; only practicing Catholic to be impel for nationwide office by the party until Paul Ryan in 2012; later starred in American Express "Do you know me?" Chauncey Olcott, American stage actor and songwriter, known for the ballad "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"; Olcott spent summers as a youth in Lockport in an "Irish Shanty" with his maternal grandmother Gilbert Peterson, contractor of multiple waterworks and reservoirs projects along with expansion of the Erie Canal; superintendent of both the Western and Eastern divisions of the Erie Canal.
Samuel Works, former New York State Senator First Niagara Bank, established in 1870 as Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank, has grown to include chapters throughout New York and Pennsylvania and, with the acquisition of New - Alliance Bank based in New Haven, Connecticut, in April 2011, one of the biggest county-wide banks in the country.
The Lockport Palace Theatre, operating since 1925, is notable for retaining its initial proscenium arch style space.
Erie canal with a description of the canal lock structures positioned here Niagara Escarpment, an extensive and abrupt change in altitude which the Niagara river crosses, forming Niagara Falls Peca, Paulette (2005), Lockport, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-1222-2 "Lockport Mayor Announces sudden resignation".
Most biographical sources simply refer to Lockport without specifying the City or the encircling Town; persons on this list may be associated with either the City or the Town of Lockport.
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