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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

Only nine facilities are still listed without vote totals on the UAW vote tracker, including GM's Lockport, New York, components plant with about 1,200 members.

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 canal, between Lockport and Rochester, runs the distance of sixty-three miles through a tolerably level country, and north of the Rochester ridge.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield

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