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},
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"ref": "1904, Major Newcomer, Report of the Chief of Engineers, page 2387",
"text": "The buildinghas been used as a schoolhouse for children of canal employees for several years, but upon the appointment of a lockman for that lock the house was needed for his residence.",
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},
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"ref": "1981 August, Verne Peters, “Return to the River”, in Cruising World, volume 7, number 8, page 95",
"text": "The next day, at the Winfield Lock, a smiling young lockman waved us in.",
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},
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"ref": "2021, William E. Ellis, The Kentucky River",
"text": "Lock operations required both the lockmaster and lockman, often supplemented by deckhands on a towboat.",
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