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Blockhouse
Blockhouse Block"house`, n. [Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus.] 1. (Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany. 2. A house of squared logs. [West. & South. U. S.]

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- surrounded by high hedges, then cross the canal at a point where there was a lockhouse. The Germans had this area defended with machine guns and rifle teams...
- a year later, in 1849, ruled that the building should serve only as a lockhouse, actions probably intended to tone down its role as a social gathering...
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- (1985-02-15). "Reliving the Lockhouse Life". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2021-09-26. Retrieved 2020-08-07. "Riley's Lockhouse (Girl Scouts)". C&O...
- Museum, the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum, Concord Point Lighthouse, the Lockhouse Museum, and the Black E**** Susan paddle steamer. Havre de Grace also claims...
- 1812. Building began in 1814 and it opened in 1815 with an Italianate lockhouse. The first lock keeper was killed in a horse race at Moulsey Hurst and...
- Aqueduct U.S. Historic district Contributing property Aqueduct, with Riley's Lockhouse at upper right. Show map of Maryland Show map of the United States Nearest...
- highest water mark the Potomac River had ever had thus far, destroying lockhouses, levels, and other structures. There were some efforts at restoration...
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