so our lock keepers were always in charge of that and they would live in lockhouses kind of like thene that is right here on my right. all right. the only difference about this lock house. it was a very special lock house because it was the only hotel here on the canal. and so the middle section of the great falls tavern was the original lock house that was built in 1828 and it was where the first lock family would live and then in 1831 we had finished the two additions on the north and the south end. the north end is the hotel part of the tavern and the bottom floor where you guys all had brought your tickets from, that was called the ballroom and it was the tavern at one point so it did serve alcohol back then and so that's where people would come from georgetown. they would take a four-hour trip up here to great falls and they'd ride boats just like this one and this was a packet or passenger boat and they would take the trips to escape the city and stay here at great falls just to kind of get away from it, relax, and they would stay up in the second or third floor. the second flo