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Warsaw on the Osage – 1905 Postcard
Real Photo Postcard, mailed 1905 Sent by Lula G. Davis from Lincoln, Missouri to Miss Edith Belle Ordway of Haverhill, Mass., on December 6, 1905 showing “a scene in our county – at Warsaw on the Osage.” This real … Continue reading
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Osage River near Osceola
Real Photo Postcard, circa 1920 Message on the back makes it sound like this photo was taken for a particular friend. Written in pencil it says: “Osage River near Osceola. Here are some river (pictures) near Mrs. MacKenny made for … Continue reading
HISTORIC HURRICANE DECK BRIDGE OVER LAKE OF THE OZARKS DYNAMITED
The last of three bridges designed by Svedrup and Parcel dynamited and replaced by new span. December 8, 2014 – Missouri’s highways and transportation commissioner pushed the plunger, detonating dynamite on a 740 foot section of the Hurricane Deck bridge … Continue reading
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A Chronology of Development on the Osage River and Tributaries
For our presentations this month for the Greenway Network at River Soundings and for the Big Muddy Speaker Series in St. Charles, we created this chronology of development on the Osage River. DAMMING THE OSAGE: A Chronology of Development on … Continue reading
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Tagged Army Corps of Engineers, Bagnell Dam, Bates County Ditch, Big Muddy Speaker Series, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenway Network, Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, Hillsdale Dam, Lock and Dam #1, Melvern Lake, Osage Indians, osage river, Pomme de Terre Dam, Stockton Dam
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BRIDGE AT HOECKER / HENLEY (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) 1903
Although long out of service, the Henley railroad bridge is still an imposing iron bridge across the Osage in Miller County, not far from St. Elizabeth. It is hard to get to as the right of way is grown up … Continue reading
PLANS FOR LOCK AND DAM NO.1 ON OSAGE RIVER
Local plans for improvements to the Osage River to make it a commercially navigable stream projected a series of locks and dams. Work by the Corps of Engineers on the first one began in September 1895 at Shipley Shoals, then … Continue reading
PADDLEFISH OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Drawing from Scientific American (19th century) Living paddlefish are somewhat hard to draw and preserved paddlefish are even harder. Their physical representation has been poorly illustrated. They’re not only hard to draw, they are near impossible to mount. Their habits … Continue reading
THE VILLAGE OF BAGNELL, MISSOURI
Photograph, 1920s The village of Bagnell, Missouri, was a little railhead along the river used mostly for unloading railroad ties that had been rafted down the Osage. There were plans for the railroad to cross the river at Bagnell, but … Continue reading
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Steamboats Remembered
Steamboats ran up the Osage as far as Osceola when the river was high. Tuscumbia, county seat of Miller County, was a regular stop – a fact commemorated today in this plaque on the new county courthouse. [hr]
OSAGE RIVER BLUFFS NEAR OSCEOLA
Real photo postcard, Osceola Missouri, 1913 The bluffs along the Osage may not have been as spectacular as the larger bluffs along New York’s Hudson, but they excited a similar esthetic appreciation in the writer of an 1888-something booklet extolling … Continue reading