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The Flight of Five Locks on the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York is a staircase lock constructed to lift or lower a canal boat over the Niagara Escarpment in five stages. The locks are part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. [1] In Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America, (SUNY Press, 2009 ...
The John Rankin Lock (formerly named Lock D) is part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the "Tenn-Tom"). [1] [2] It is located in Itawamba County, Mississippi, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Fulton. The lock is part of a series of five locks within a stretch of the Tenn-Tom known as the "Chain of lakes" or canal ...
The five-rise opened on 21 March 1774 [6] and was a major feat of engineering at the time. When the locks and therefore the canal from Gargrave to Thackley [7] was opened in 1774, a crowd of 30,000 people turned out to celebrate. The first boat to use the locks took just 28 minutes. The first trip was described in the Leeds Intelligencer. [8]
English: A view over the downtown district of Lockport, New York as seen from a bench across from Lake Effect Ice Cream on Canal Street on a June 2021 evening. In the foreground is the Erie Canal with its famous "Flight of Five" locks carrying boats up and down the Niagara Escarpment; in the background from left to right are: the Pine Street bridge, Old City Hall (now a restaurant), the Urban ...
The district includes seven locks of the abandoned Black River Canal, including the five lock combine (locks 39 through 43). The locks are 90 by 15 feet (27.4 by 4.6 m) and could accommodate boats of 70 tons. The original locks were built about 1850 and rebuilt between 1887 and 1900. The canal closed in 1924. [2]
The seven locks raised the level of the canal by 63 feet (19 m) to a fairly short summit pound, which passed through Braunston Tunnel and then descended through five locks to Braunston. [3] The locks were built wide enough to take two narrow boats side by side, in the hope that the canals beyond the northern terminus could be persuaded to widen ...
The Gillespie V. Montgomery Lock (formerly named Lock E) is part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom). It is located in north Itawamba County, Mississippi, close to the Prentiss County line. It is the northernmost of a series of five locks within the Tenn-Tom referred to as the "Chain of Lakes" or "Canal" section.
The guard lock at the upstream end protected the other locks from surges of water. Built in 1891, it has limestone abutments, and miter gates built of squared wooden timbers. [6] [2] Each of the five locks in the canal is about 144 feet (44 m) long by 36 feet (11 m) wide, with walls of limestone block and timber gates. The gates are opened and ...