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    Melvin Price Locks and Dam is a dam and two locks at river mile 200.78 on the Upper Mississippi River, about 17 miles (27 km) north of Saint Louis, Missouri...
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    pancreatic cancer. Price is the namesake of the Melvin Price Locks and Dam, near Alton, Illinois on the Upper Mississippi River, and the Melvin Price Federal Building...
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    long. It was demolished in 1990 and replaced by the Melvin Price Locks and Dam, which is also known as Lock and Dam number 26. Old Clark Bridge Historic...
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    Great Rivers Museum includes daily tours of Melvin Price Locks and Dam, the newest and busiest lock and dam complex on the main channel of the Mississippi...
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    This is a list of current and former locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River which ends at the Mississippi River's confluence with the Ohio River...
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    Point Dam – West Point Lake Fordham Dam Kaskaskia Lock and Dam Lake Holiday Dam, Lake Holiday Chain of Rocks Lock McHenry Dam Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Alton...
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  • Branch Dam, Long Branch Lake, USACE Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Mississippi River, USACE Pomme de Terre Dam, Pomme de Terre Lake, USACE Powersite Dam, Lake...
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    based in Philadelphia and Kansas City Fred Olsen invented the ball propellant manufacturing process here. Melvin Price Locks and Dam on the Mississippi River...
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    Chain of Rocks Lock (category Pages using infobox dam which are not about dams)
    Chain of Rocks Lock and Dam, also known as Locks No. 27, is a lock situated at the southern end of Chouteau Island near St. Louis, Missouri on the Upper...
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  • Museum  [Wikidata] at Melvin Price Locks and Dam, the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the Chain...
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  • Bridge, the National Great Rivers Museum  [Wikidata] at Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, MCT Confluence Bike Trail, the...
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    Park, the Clark Bridge in Alton, and the National Great Rivers Museum  [Wikidata] at the Melvin Price Locks and Dam. The Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic...
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    Lock and Dam No. 25 is a lock and dam located near Winfield, Missouri, on the Upper Mississippi River around river mile 241.4. The movable portion of the...
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    slackwaters (Big Slackwater above Dam No. 4, and Little Slackwater above Dam No. 5) and multiple composite locks (Locks 58–71) were built. At first, the...
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    system of 29 locks and dams. The structures were authorized by Congress in the 1930s, and most were completed by 1940. A primary reason for damming the river...
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  • List of museums in Illinois (category Lists of buildings and structures in Illinois)
    government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections...
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    to build a dam and locks around the falls in 1819. Archibald Thweatt and his heirs were also given leave to build a grist mill on the dam. In the 1830s...
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  • Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (category United States federal defense and national security legislation)
    continued operation and maintenance of portions of the Cross Florida barge canal project. Authorizes visitor centers at Melvin Price Lock and Dam, Alton, Illinois...
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    Springfield, Massachusetts (category Hispanic and Latino American culture in Massachusetts)
    1948, Brainard Airport from January 1949 to December 1954, and at Bradley Int'l in Windsor Locks since January 1955. "The City of Progress New City Library...
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  • linens, wool, shoes, stockings, nails, locks, hinges, and tools of every sort ... are all imported from and through Great Britain. Georgia has had five...
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  • when his Bleriot had engine trouble and crashed on 1 May 1915 at Fort Grange, Gosport. 8 May Lieutenant (jg) Melvin L. Stolz, student aviator, is killed...
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