Lockport, Indiana

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Lockport is an unincorporated community in Adams Township, Carroll County, Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

A post office was established at Lockport in 1838, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Carroll&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Carroll County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=28 August 2014}} The birth of the town, and its name, are related to the set of lock gates that one would have encountered on the Wabash and Erie Canal.{{cite book|last=Odell|first=John Curtis|title=History of Carroll County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QG03AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA80|year=1916|publisher=B.F. Bowen|page=80}}{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/200 200]|quote=...on the Wabash and Erie Canal and named for the locks here.}}

Geography

Lockport is located less than half a mile northwest of the Wabash River. Burnetts Creek flows along the east side of town.

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Indiana

Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana

Category:Lafayette metropolitan area, Indiana