"The site of the locks at Lockport, from the time of the orginal canal to the present has never changed.  The early engineers found the logical location for locks in this vicinity and the same place has been used ever since.  The romance of ancient geological happenings have attached to this site.  Where the locks now stand the rushings waters from the Great Lakes once poured, falling over a precipice and excavating the george through which the canal passes on its course to the east..."  Nobel Whitford, 1922