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3,252
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Lockport, LA - History
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Welcome to the Lockport Home page. The Lockport Home page provides as much information as possible on Lockport. Knowing Lockport’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lockport’s Home page, you will also find Lockport’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Lockport has a population of 3252. 44.6% of Lockport’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.4 are female. 39% of Lockport is married and 58.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $113,128, and the average rent is $897. Household median income in Lockport is $44,167, and the individual median income is $23,116. Lockport’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.1%), Hispanic(4.7%), Multiple(3.6%), Other(2.6%), Native(0.4%), Black(0.3%).
Lockport, founded in 1835, traces its history to Jacques Lamotte, who in 1790 owned a large tract of land along Bayou Lafourche. Lemotte sold a portion of the tract to Messrs. Mercier and Marcantel in 1814. In 1823 William Field purchased a parcel of the land and later donated 5 arpents of it on both banks of Bayou Lafourche to Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company.
As part of the transaction, the company agreed to build a canal, which would link Bayou Terrebonne to New Orleans. Allou D'Hemecourt surveyed the area in 1835. His map bears the name Longueville. Eventually, the village's name would become Lockport. At first the canal, completed in 1847, brought prosperity to the area.
Three years later locks were completed at the point where the canal reached Bayou Lafourche. Shipping along the canal was brisk until 1868. After that time, part of the waterway was no longer in use. The crevasse of 1876 partially destroyed the locks. Today remnants of the brick bulwark are still visible under a blanket of weeds. Lockport prospered in spite of the canal's failure as a business venture.
In 1849 the first public school opened. It was a one-room affair in Scanian's Cooperage. In 1850 Holy Savior Catholic Church was dedicated, and in 1879 an order of nuns established Holy Savior School. The Village of Lockport was incorporated in 1899, and a mayor and board of aldermen were named. At the turn of the century, the village boasted a post office, brick sidewalks, an iron bridge over the bayou, a newspaper, ice house, banks, hotels, liveries, blacksmith shop, clothing stores, grocery and general merchandise stores, and various other enterprises.
The iron bridge created quite a stir among the populace. It joined Lockport to Rita, the settlement on the east bank of the bayou. One of the worst calamities to touch the village occurred in 1916, when a disastrous fire destroyed a large part of the business area and several homes. As a result of this tragedy, a water tower was erected on Main Street near the present day Sheriff's Annex, where it stood until Hurricane Betsy destroyed it in 1965. By 1948 Lockport's population had grown to the point where its status was changed from village to town.
Its boundaries had been expanded, and later the site of the canal bridge was changed to fifth street, now Crescent Avenue. Highway 1 no longer ran along Main Street. Several businesses sprang up along the new route, and that area has become the business hub of the town. Today Lockport is a progressive community, dependent upon a diversified economy, surrounded by industries such as shipbuilding, sugarcane farming, oil and gas exploration, cattle, fishing, and a variety of vegetable farms.
Through the years Lockport has managed to retain its small town quality - a quality that welcomes visitors who travel along Bayou Lafourche, the longest street in the world
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