Macedon's original 1825 Erie Canal, known as Clinton's Ditch, proved so successful that Lock 60 was built in 1841 as a single chamber as part of a system-wide enlargement. While the original canal was four feet deep and forty feet wide, the enlarged canal was seven feet deep and seventy feet wide. Traffic on the enlarged canal grew so great that in 1874 a second chamber was constructed alongside the first to allow simultaneous lockings of eastbound and westbound boats. In 1888, this second chamber was doubled in length to further increase capacity. Lock 60 was abandoned around 1914 with the completion of the third version of the canal, which remains in use today.