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Photographer: Howard C. Ohlhous
Taken: April 5, 2016
Caption: Marker Detail
Additional Description: Three men relax on the large wooden lock gate counterweight. The lock tender would have to push on these beams by hand to open and close the lock gates. The lock tender's hut, on the left, with the lock number, 23, on the side of it would serve as an office for the lock tender, who, especially at this lock, would have been a very busy man; during its busiest seasons, the lock was operating with a lockage every 5 minutes (Approximately 47,000 lockages per season).
Submitted: April 9, 2016, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p349010
File Size: 0.391 Megabytes

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