Lockport is a town on Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,490 in 2020. It is allocation of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.

Lockport, founded in 1835, traces its archives to Jacques Lamotte, who in 1790 owned a large tract of house along Bayou Lafourche. Lemotte sold a ration of the tract to Messrs. Mercier and Marcantel in 1814. In 1823 William Field purchased a parcel of the house and far ahead donated 5 arpents of it on both banks of Bayou Lafourche to Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company. As share of the transaction, the company very to construct a canal, which would associate Bayou Terrebonne to New Orleans. Allou D’Hemecourt surveyed the Place in 1835. His map bears the publicize Longueville. Eventually, the village’s proclaim would become Lockport.

At first the canal, completed in 1847, brought privileged circumstances to the area. Three years far ahead locks were completed at the lessening where the canal reached Bayou Lafourche. Shipping along the canal was brisk until 1868. After that time, part of the waterway was no longer in use. The crevasse of 1876 partially destroyed the locks. Today remnants of the brick bulwark are still visible below a blanket of weeds.

Lockport prospered in hostility of the canal’s failure as a issue venture. In 1849 the first public scholastic opened. It was a one-room affair in Scanian’s Cooperage. In 1850 Holy Savior Catholic Church was dedicated, and in 1879 an order of nuns traditional Holy Savior School.