Lock 28, or Yankee Hill Lock, was part of the Enlarged Erie Canal. In operation from the 1840s into the 20 century, this lock had two side-by-side lock chambers, each measuring 110 feet long by 18 feet wide. The two chambers let boats going in opposite directions lock-through at the same time. Yankee Hill Lock was the last double lock completed in eastern New York. Although builders William Coleman and John Taylor began its construction in the early 1840s, financial problems kept Lock 28 from operation until the 1850s.
