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Abandoned lock 23 on the widened canal. There is a group based in Rotterdam and Schenectady along with students from Union College who are planning to restore this lock. The original canal had 22 locks between Albany and Schenectady and it was very time consuming to get through all those locks. So a lot of traffic used ground transportation to Schenectady and got on boats after lock 22. Lock 23 would be the first lock encountered.

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