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Photographer: Anton Schwarzmueller
Taken: June 4, 2014
Caption: The Erie Barge Canal at Lockport, Exchange Street Lift Bridge
Additional Description: The lift bridge is raised for the boat Lockview IV carrying schoolchildren. Before the lift begins, traffic signals change, wooden gates descend, and a genuine bell is mechanically struck in even intervals. When this bridge was built, times of heavy canal traffic dictated that it be in the raised position more than the lowered position, hence the staircases at each end for pedestrian traffic to utilize the bridge while raised. View is from front of marker.
Submitted: June 18, 2014, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p276167
File Size: 4.075 Megabytes

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