Songo Lock

This picture of Songo Lock was taken off Songo Lock Road in Naples, Maine.  This lock was once part of a vital link in the fifty (50) mile long waterway from Portland Harbor to Harrison, Maine at the head of Long Lake until the railroad came into being in 1869.  This was just one of twenty-seven (27) such locks that were used to freight lumber out and supplies in through the waterway.  The twenty-seven locks were constructed in the canal to compensate for the 260 foot difference in elevation between Sebago Lake and sea level.  Songo Lock remains the only operating lock that now is used to service pleasure boats between Sebago Lake and Long Lake waterway.