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LOCKPORT , a city and the county-seat ofSee also: Niagara county, New See also: York, U.S.A., on the See also: Erie Canal, 26 m. by See also: rail N. by E. of See also: Buffalo and 56 m
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W. of Rochester
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Pop
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(1900) 16,581, of whom 2036 were See also: foreign-See also: born and 16o were negroes; (1910 census) 17,970
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It is served by the New York Central & Hudson See also: River and the Erie See also: railways, by the See also: International railway(electric interurban), and by the Erie Canal
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The city owes its name to the five See also: double locks of the canal, which here falls 66 ft
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(over a continuation of the Niagara escarpment locally known as " See also: Mountain See also: Ridge ") from the level of Lake Erie to that of the Genesee river
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In 1909 a scheme was on See also: foot to replace these five locks by a huge lift See also: lock and to construct a large harbour immediately W. of the city
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The surplus See also: water from See also: Tonawanda Creek, long claimed both by the Canal and by the Lockport manufacturers, after supplying the canal furnishes water-powel, and electric power is derived from Niagara
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The factory products, mostly paper and See also: wood-pulp, See also: flour and cereal foods, and foundry and machine-See also: shop products, were valued in 1905 at $5,807,980
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Lockport lies in a See also: rich farming and fruit (especially See also: apple and See also: pear) country, containing extensive See also: sandstone and Niagara See also: limestone quarries, and is a See also: shipping point for the fruits and grains and the limestone and sandstone of the surrounding country
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Many buildings in the business See also: part of the city are heated by the See also: Holly distributing See also: system, which pipes steam from a central station or plant, and originated in Lockport
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The city owns and operates the water- See also: works, long operated under the Holly system, which, as well as the Holly distributing system, was devised by Birdsill Holly, a See also: civil engineer of Lock-See also: port
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In 1909 a new system was virtually completed, water being taken from the Niagara river at Tonawanda and pumped thence to a stand-See also: pipe in Lockport
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The site, that of the most easterly See also: village in New York See also: state held by the Neutral Nation of See also: Indians, was part of the See also: tract bought by the See also: Holland
See also: Company in 1792–1793
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Subsequently most of the See also: land on which the city stands was bought from the Holland Company by Esek See also: Brown, the proprietor of a
See also: local See also: tavern, and fourteen others, but there were few settlers until after 1820
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In 1822 the place was made the county-seat, and in 1823 it was much enlarged by the See also: settlement here of workmen on the Erie Canal, and was the headquarters for a See also: time of the canal contractors
.
It was incorporated as a village in 1829, was reached by the Erie railway in 1852, and in 1865 was chartered as a city
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