Meeker Island Lock and Dam (originally known as Lock and Dam No. 2) was the first lock and dam facility built on the Upper Mississippi River. Meeker Island...
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1917 and superseded the role of the earlier Lock and Dam No. 2 (today known as the Meeker Island Lock and Dam). The facility was rebuilt in 1929, and an...
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Lock and Dam No. 2 is located along the Upper Mississippi River near Hastings, Minnesota and construction commenced in 1927. The eastern dam portion is...
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Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway (redirect from Boom Island Park)
the head of navigation for barge traffic on the river until the lock at Upper Lock and Dam was taken out of service. Northeast runs through Northeast Minneapolis...
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Mississippi Gorge Regional Park (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
Godfrey Parkway. Meeker Island Lock and Dam - Located at the river bottom below the bluffs, the historic dam site features hiking trails and an off leash...
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expansion study Lock and Dam 6 time lapse List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River Mississippi Valley Division List of locks and dams of the Ohio...
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new St. Paul park makes accessible the remains of the historic Meeker Island Lock and Dam". Saint Paul Pioneer Press. St. Paul, Minn. Jefferson, Jennifer...
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Saint Anthony Falls (category Dams in Minnesota)
learned that Minneapolis" "construct a lock and dam at Meeker Island". "H.R.3080 – Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014". congress.gov....
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Stone Arch Bridge (Minneapolis) (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
1963 - The lock and dam was built at St. Anthony falls which required arch number 13 and 14 to be replaced with a 200-foot Warren truss and allow barges...
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Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis) (category National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
large quantity of used chewing gum. Minnesota portal Coldwater Spring Lock and Dam No. 1 Minnehaha Falls Lower Glen Trail Minnehaha Trail Winchell Trail...
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operations in September 1848. He built a dam on the east channel of the river between Nicollet Island and Hennepin Island. Steele platted the townsite of St...
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Twin Cities Assembly Plant (category Buildings and structures in Saint Paul, Minnesota)
that the first lock and dam built on the Mississippi would have to be demolished. Some remains of the upstream Meeker Island Lock and Dam still poke out...
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Saint Paul, Minnesota (section Government and politics)
which opened in 1924 and closed at the end of 2011. The plant was in Highland Park on the Mississippi River, adjacent to Lock and Dam No. 1, Mississippi...
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Bradley B. Meeker (March 13, 1813 – February 19, 1873) was an American jurist, lawyer, and businessman. Meeker was born on March 13, 1813, in Fairfield...
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Science Museum of Minnesota (redirect from St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters)
history, physical science, and mathematics education. Founded in 1907, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution has 385 employees and is supported by volunteers...
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Fort Snelling (unorganized territory), Minnesota (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
Minneapolis to the north and Bloomington to the southwest, while Saint Paul in Ramsey County (including Pike Island) is to the northeast, and across the Minnesota...
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Mill City Museum (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Society that opened in 2003, focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from...
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Florence no longer exists) Meeker Island Lock and Dam – Mississippi River (built 1907, became obsolete and removed 1920) Mill Pond Dam, Appleton, Minnesota...
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Eastman tunnel (redirect from Hennepin Island tunnel)
temporary as the 1870 spring floods damaged some of the new dams and swept away more of Hennepin Island. The final fix for the tunnel disaster was a concrete...
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Fort Snelling (category Military and war museums in Minnesota)
which "abrogated and annulled" all treaties with the Dakota people. The moral legitimacy of the land title is still disputed. Pike Island, at the mouth of...
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Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River. The trail turns south onto North Mud Island Road...
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have been located on what was then an "island," two miles long and up to one mile wide, between Pigs Eye Lake and the Mississippi from this time until the...
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Bohemian Flats (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
completion of Lock and Dam No. 1 in 1917. In 1931 the city evicted the residents of Bohemian Flats just north of the municipal levee and built a coal barge...
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Minnehaha Falls Lower Glen Trail (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
State Park Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway Lock and Dam No. 1 Minnehaha Trail Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Upper Mississippi River Winchell...
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Pike Island (Dakota: Wita Tanka) is an island at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers in the southwestern-most part of Saint Paul in...
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Winchell Trail (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
River Parkway and East 44th Street. Hikers can continue southward to Lock and Dam No. 1, Minnehaha Falls Lower Glen Trail in Minnehaha Park, and Fort Snelling...
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John Harrington Stevens House (category National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
The house is part of the Minnehaha Historic District and managed by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The structure was heavily damaged by...
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Coldwater Spring (category CS1 maint: date and year)
confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers was a neutral and sacred place where the Ojibwe, Dakota, Sauk, Meskwaki and Potowatamie tribes moved freely...
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Mill Ruins Park (category Mississippi National River and Recreation Area)
Mississippi River and running from 3rd Ave. S. to about 9th Ave. S. The park interprets the history of flour milling in Minneapolis and shows the ruins...
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