Welcome to a unique display of the foundations of Lockport and the
Niagara Frontier area.
Our museum's collection has been amassed from within 50 miles of Lockport city center.
Take your time proceeding through the galleries and taking in the commentary.
The museum is a another service of Lockport's Community Home Page.
There are no closing hours. No admission fee.
This Is The Museum Main Lobby
Rock Gallery Mineral Gallery
Fossil Galleries
Lockport
Geology Overview
About Our Staff Field Photos Field Reports Museum Contributions
The Lockport Quarry The Mystery Of The Lockport Cave
Lockport Home Page
Dr. Buckholtz has long had an interest in the
geological history of Lockport and the Niagara Frontier and in the more recent history as
well. Raised in Lockport, he began his collection of various specimens around
the age of 12. He studied geology and mineralogy and high temperature chemical
reactions as part of a program in Glass and Ceramic Engineering at State University of New
York at Alfred where he received his Bachelor's Degree. His Master's and
Doctorate Degrees were awarded by Queens University in Mathematical Physics and Stochastic
Processes respectively. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States,
Canada, and abroad and observed geological features and collected specimens in his
travels. Many of the items in the museum are from his personal collection. He
is an active Lockport historian here at the website.
Mr. Rooney is the Webmaster for the Lockport Home Page. Born and raised in Lockport he has been associated with Dr. Buckholtz on numerous ventures most of his life including a project dealing with Albanian Chromite and Ferrochrome. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from Niagara University and is employed as an environmental chemist. He is a member of the Niagara County Historial Society.
Mr. Keryk was born and raised in Lockport and has extensive experience in the field collection and identification of rocks, minerals, and fossils. Many of the items on display here are from his original collections which date back over forty years. Although employed in the research department of a major chemical company in Michigan, he travels back to this area to lead exploration. He consults with Lockport operations by telephone and e-mail.
Mr. Hess has been collecting minerals, rocks, and fossils since about 1959 at all locations through the Niagara Frontier, upstate New York, and Canada. He has been a member of all major area mineral and fossil collecting groups and has an extensive personal collection. Now retired, he still leads occasional field expeditions in the Niagara Frontier area.
Dr. March serves to provide liason to educational institutions, groups, teachers, and the like who wish to consider field trips to the Lockport area or the use of material at this website in educational presentations. She is a professor in the school of education at D'Youville College, received her doctorate from the University of Buffalo, and is a frequent participant in local fossil hunts. Dr. March has an extensive teaching background in area public schools. She grew up in Lockport.
Our Staff Is All Volunteer
Contributions to the museum are solicited.
We appreciate receiving written reports on field explorations, in the Niagara Frontier area, regardless of date. Your recollections concerning rock, mineral, or fossil finds in this area can be most useful for others and certainly interesting to all who visit here. Submit by e-mail to the Curator.
Photographs of Lockport-area rocks, minerals, and fossils are especially welcome as we are always seeking to add to the museum's collection. We can scan printed photographs and return to you and we can process .jpg photo files sent via e-mail or on disc. Inquire as to how to send us your photographs. Do not send anything with first making inquiry.
If you are considering disposing of a collection, or part of it, please consider gifting it to our museum for photographing and safe-keeping until a local physical display can be arranged. We are not recognized by tax authorities for donation purposes nor are we licensed or incorporated by the State of New York as a museum (yet). However, that doesn't mean that your collection will not be preserved with the utmost integrity. Inquire to the Curator.
Financial support of the museum is most welcome from businesses that care to place advertising or link connections here at this site. Inquire to the Webmaster.
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