Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Hamilton and Keokuk share Lock & Dam 19 on the Mississippi River. The dam has the largest fall of any on the Mississippi and the power house supplies a majority of the electricity for St. Louis, MO. Lake Cooper, formed above the dam, represents the widest span of the Mississippi between Montrose, IA and Nauvoo, IL.
Keokuk National Cemetery was created in a separate, donated plot of Oakland Cemetery during the American Civil War as a place to inter veterans who died in the five military hospitals in the area. By the end of the Civil War, the cemetery had the interments of over 600 Union soldiers, and 8 Confederate prisoners of war .
Keokuk may refer to: Keokuk (Sauk chief) Entities named after Chief Keokuk: Places: Keokuk, Iowa, USA; Keokuk County, Iowa, USA; Keokuk Airport, USA; Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge, USA; Keokuk Rail Bridge, USA; Keokuk Avenue, a street in Chatsworth, California, USA; Things: Keokuk Westerns, a professional baseball team in the National Association in 1875
This article about the geography of Wapello County, Iowa is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.