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This looks down the path of the original Erie canal. The museum building is on the site of a weigh lock. What is a weigh lock? Boats had to pay tolls based on the weight of the cargo. So they had to be weighed. They would go into a weigh lock, the water was drained, and this left the boat on one end of a great big balance scale!

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