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Lockport

American  
[lok-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈlɒkˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

  1. a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.


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To have a shot at keeping the zoae alive and thriving, Akers said, “I had to re-create the ocean”—in her house in Lockport, New York, 500 miles from the Atlantic.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

Other GM plants have yet to vote, including its Lockport, New York plant.

From Reuters Nov. 15, 2023

Banks sued over conditions at GM's components plant in Lockport, New York, where she began working in 1996.

From Reuters Sep. 7, 2023

The flat-bottomed boat carrying local hospitality workers capsized Monday during a tour of an historic underground water tunnel off the Erie Canal in the western New York city of Lockport, killing one person.

From Seattle Times Jun. 13, 2023

The cause of the threatened war was the imprisonment of Mr. McLeod, a British officer, in Lockport jail, New York, which state was trying him for arson; and the Americans seemed resolved on executing him.

From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Whitney, Orson F.

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