History & local legend
Five Locks, near Berne along the Schuylkill River, takes its name from the canal infrastructure that once helped boats negotiate changes in water level. A sequence of five lock chambers appeared on an 1827 map; later enlargement reduced their number, but the local name survived.
A legend recorded by the Blue Mountain Road blog in 2011 concerns a woman appearing in mist over the canal. The telling specifies a fairly warm night, a full moon and the hour around midnight. Under those conditions, the rising mist is said to gather into a human shape.
