E32 Pittsford

Numbering plays a small trick here: after Lock E30 the count skips straight to E32, because the Erie never had a Lock E31 — the number was simply never assigned. E32 lifts boats 25.1 feet at mile 255 — tied with neighboring E33 for the tallest single lift in the Rochester area — and sets them down at Pittsford’s Schoen Place, a genteel restored canal landing of shops and old warehouses where the replica packet boat Sam Patch still takes on passengers. It’s a Barge Canal lock, part of the early-twentieth-century rebuild. Just east, the canal still rides the original 1820s marvel that made this reach famous — the Great Embankment, an earthen wall carrying the waterway some 65 feet above Irondequoit Creek, first proposed by surveyor James Geddes in 1808 and completed in 1822.