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Lock and Dam No. 19 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa. In 1978, the Keokuk Lock and Dam was listed in the National Register of Historic Places , #78001234. In 2004, the facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Lock and Dam No. 19 Historic District, #04000179 covering 1,605 acres ...
HAER No. IA-27, "Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 19, Keokuk, Lee County, IA", 79 photos, 17 data pages, 5 photo caption pages HAER No. IL-26, " Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 13, Fulton, Whiteside County, IL ", 14 photos, 16 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Following the completion of the Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge in 1985, the US Route 136 traffic was rerouted there, and the upper deck of this bridge, on the Keokuk side, was converted to an observation deck to view the nearby lock and dam; this deck is no longer used for road traffic, but the lower deck is still used for rail traffic. The bridge was ...
A national cemetery was designated for those who did not survive. After the war was over, Keokuk continued its expansion. A medical college was founded, along with a major-league baseball team, the Keokuk Westerns, in 1875. In 1913, Lock and Dam No. 19 was completed nearby on the Mississippi River. The population of Keokuk reached 15,106 by ...
M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine. Life Magazine, 1931. Hugh L. Cooper speaks to MIT civil engineers Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, January 1915. H. Dorn (1979). "Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Détente".
A consortium of interests known as the Hotel Iowa Company, including the Mississippi River Power Company who had recently built the Keokuk Dam, planned for and built the hotel. The seven-story structure was designed by St. Louis architect Guy C. Mariner, [2] and built from 1912 to 1913 by the Guaranty Construction Company of Chicago. The Hotel ...
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The route was designated nationally in 1951 and has remained largely unchanged through Keokuk since then. The highway originally crossed the Mississippi on the Keokuk Rail Bridge, which was the second bridge built and operated by Andrew Carnegie's Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Company in that location. While it was designed for wagons and early ...