Five Lock Combine and Locks 37 and 38, Black River Canal is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in the Boonville Gorge Park at Boonville in

Oneida County, New York Oneida County is a county in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 232,125. The county seat is Utica. The name is in honor of the Oneida, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League or ''Haudenos ...

. The district includes seven locks of the abandoned

Black River Canal The Black River Canal was a canal built in northern New York in the United States to connect the Erie Canal to the Black River. The canal had 109 locks along its length. Remains of several of the canal's former locks are visible along New York ...

, including the five lock combine (locks 39 through 43). The locks are and could accommodate boats of 70 tons. The original locks were built about 1850 and rebuilt between 1887 and 1900. The canal closed in 1924. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1973.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Transport infrastructure completed in 1850 Historic districts in Oneida County, New York Locks on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Oneida County, New York {{OneidaCountyNY-NRHP-stub