Tag Archives: Kaysinger Dam

Poetic Meditations on the Osage River – Guest Post by Rod Cameron

Posted on May 23, 2016 by admin

Recently Rod Cameron, of Raytown, messaged us on Facebook after reading Damming the Osage. Rod lived along the Osage River in the 1970s. He shared with us a poem he had written as he watched Truman Dam being built. It … Continue reading →

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KANSAS CITY STAR – 53 years ago today – CORPS RECOMMENDS ADDING POWER GENERATION TO KAYSINGER BLUFF DAM

Posted on March 16, 2015 by admin

Twelve years after authorization of what was then called Kaysinger Dam, and a little more than two years before the actual groundbreaking commencement of construction, Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. W. K. Wilson, Jr. recommended to the Secretary of … Continue reading →

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FAIRFIELD (MISSOURI) COVERED BRIDGE

Posted on November 21, 2012 by admin

 Real photo postcard. Penciled on back: “Fairfield Mill in July 1910” There was a mill and a small manufacturing complex at the hamlet of Fairfield, Missouri on the Pomme de Terre River built, it is said, by Judge George Alexander. … Continue reading →

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