Lockport
N 29° 38.833 W 090° 32.350
15R E 738214 N 3282227
Located on Canal St. at the Bayouside Park, next to gazebo.
Waymark Code: WM62NM
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/22/2009
Views: 10
Erected by Lafourche Historical Society, non profit society formed for the preservation of Lafourche Parish history.
Marker Text reads
Ruins of locks not washed away by a crevasse in 1917 are near here for which Locport is named. An earlier settlement was named Longueville by 1835 when William Fields donated land for a canal later known as the Company Canal which connected Bayou Terrebonne with New Orleans across the lakes and Bayou Lafourche, after the locks were built in 1850, the name of the settlement was changed, and the town was incorporated in 1899 as Lockport.
Marker Name: Lockport
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: City/Parish/State
Parish: Lafourche
Link to more information:: Not listed
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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