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Flight of Five: Where Art and Science Tamed Nature

By Douglas Farley - July 15, 2009

Once an uninhabitable forest full of rock ledges, the area now known as Lockport seemed like an unlikely spot for a boom town. That all changed when the Erie Canal needed a place to climb the Niagara Escarpment.

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