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Cori Wilson
posted five images with the comment:
Historic Erie Canal at Newark, New York ("Lockville")
Newark, New York, was an important hub on the Erie Canal known as Lockville due to its cluster of three locks that helped boats navigate the elevation changes along the canal.
The Locks
Lock 58 (middle lock): Featured in the first photo with the overhead bridge and the steam tug R. H. HEBARD. It had a lift of 8 feet and was never lengthened. The R. H. HEBARD, visible in the lock, was a 40-foot, 13-gross-ton steam-powered screw tug built in Buffalo in 1882 with a crew of three.
Lock 57 (lower lock): Shown in the third photo ("Lower Lock, Erie Canal, Newark, N.Y."). It had a lift of 8 feet, was a double lock, and was also never lengthened.
The second and fourth photos capture everyday canal life and infrastructure in the heart of Newark:
A bustling urban canal view with a low bridge (likely near Main Street), horse-drawn traffic on the towpath, canal boats, and multi-story brick buildings lining the waterway.
The area along Canal Street (right side of the fourth photo) was a commercial center. In 1874, within one block from the Main Street bridge eastward to Charles Street, there were a tannery, foundry, hotel, church, and several warehouses
[The comments appear to have colorized versions of these images and an AI video.]
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Lock #57 (Lower)
Lock #58 (Middle)
If they don't manage the vegetation, they are going to lose the lock walls.
Lock #59 (Upper)
The southern camber on the right has been filled in.
History
The hamlet of Lockville was first settled around 1805 about three-quarters of a mile east of what used to be known as Miller's Basin. It was called Lockville due to the three locks built near the settlement on the original Erie Canal. The three original Clinton's Ditch era Erie Canal Locks 70, 69 and 68 were dismantled for construction of the Enlarged Erie Canal, and were replaced by Enlarged Erie Canal Locks 59, 58 and 57 in 1839-1841. In 1853, the communities of Newark, formerly called Miller's Basin, and Lockville merged to become the present Newark, New York.
The remains of the former Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 59 (also called the Upper Lockville Lock) are located along North Clinton Street across from the current Erie Barge Canal Lock 28-B in Newark, just off N.Y. Route 31. It is a double-chamber, single-length lock built in 1841, and had a lift to the west of 7.88 feet. The remains of the former Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 58 (also called the Middle Lockville Lock) is a few blocks east off Lyons Street, but one of the chambers is roofed over and being used by a scrap company. Volunteers have cleared the other chamber as part of a canal trail project. The lock is a double-chamber, single-length lock, with a lift to the west of 7.93 feet. The former Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 57 (also called the Lower Lockville Lock) was dismantled for construction of the current Erie Barge Canal.
All three Enlarged Erie Canal (Lockville) Locks were never lengthened, as the Canal made a relatively sharp curve, leaving no room for lengthening. In 1890, a proposal was made to reduce the curvature by moving the canal to the north and replacing the three locks with a new larger lock (see the map below). This proposal was never adopted, and the curve remained until Lock no. 28-B was put into use in 1914 with the completion of the Erie Barge Canal.
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This is the proposal to use a combined lock to replace the three locks.
This shows how the three locks were replaced by
Lock #28B.
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