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lock keeper
A Lock keeper, Lock Tender, or lock operator looks after a canal or river lock, operating it and if necessary maintaining it or organizing its maintenance. Traditionally, the lock keeper lived on-site, often in a small purpose-built cottage. With the decline in commercial traffic the occupation is dying out, at least in Britain. Many previously manned locks are now unmanned.
The Kentucky River Museum is located in a former lock operator's dwelling.
== Pay and other compensation ==
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in 1900 paid their lockkeepers $18 USD per day, with a rent free house. They often had small stores to sell groceries to the passing boats, and also had to make minor repairs to the canal and locks.〔http://www.canals.org/siteimages/NSF_Building_Americas_Canals_Curriculum.pdf p. 14〕
On the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal the lockkeeper had a rent free house, an acre of land for a garden, and was paid a base of $150 a year. If he kept more than one lock, it was $50 for each extra lock, with a maximum of 3 locks.〔Kytle, Elizabeth. ''Home on the Canal'',Seven Locks Press, 1983. ISBN 0-932020-13-5, p. 87〕
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