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EXPOSED! Lock & Dam #1 on Osage River
This summer’s drought has drastically lowered water levels on major waterways throughout the Midwest. The Corps of Engineers first major water control project on the Osage – built around the turn of the last century to facilitate steamboat travel – … Continue reading
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Lock and Dam No. 1
Real photo postcard, 1910-1920. Businessmen along the Osage River agitated for generations for engineering improvements that would facilitate steamboat traffic on the river. Finally in the late 1800s, politicians bullied the Army Corps of Engineers into building a disastrous lock … Continue reading
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