Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te raka i hangaia e Colonel George Washington Goethals o te United States Army Corps of Engineers, i muri mai i mahi hei kaiwhakahaere matua mo te hanganga o te Canal Canal Lock, a ka haere tonu ki te
Ko te kāwana tuatahi o Canal Zone. I whakatuwheratia a Plaquemine Lock i te Paenga-whāwhā 9, 1909 i muri i nga tau 14 o te hanganga. I te wa i hangaia ai, ko te Plaquemine Lock te teitei ake o te wai hou o tetahi kati i te ao. I whakamahia te kati i te timatanga i te kaupapa rere-a-papa tae noa ki te whakauru i nga papu i nga tau i muri mai.