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The completion of the original locks at Lockport opened a connecting waterway between the Hudson River and the Great Lakes through the Erie Canal, opening a door to the settling of the West. The engineers who surveyed and designed this project with antiquated instruments and little engineering experience were pioneers of American engineering.
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Lockport, New York · United States