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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...
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- interpretive signs give visitors a glimpses into the canal's heyday. The lockhouse at Four Locks (Lock 49) has been rehabilitated and is available for overnight...
- 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...
- from the Schuylkill Valley School District. They organized the Leesport Lockhouse Foundation. After paying the no interest mortgage, provided by The First...
- (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...
- "into lockhouse 21 in 1907". A newspaper says "Jesse Anderson Swain and his family, who had operated Lock 21 since 1909 from the stone lockhouse that went...
- The Pennyfield Lock (Lock #22) and lockhouse are part of the 184.5-mile (296.9 km) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (a.k.a. C&O Canal) that operated in the United...
- Glen and Travilah roads to C&O Canal Lockhouse 22 (Pennyfield Lock) is 1.9 miles (3.1 km) and the distance to Lockhouse 21 (Swains) is 3.5 miles (5.6 km)...