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Beaver Dam State Park is an Illinois state park on 750 acres (304 ha) in Macoupin County, Illinois in the United States. The park is 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Carlinville, Illinois and is managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) as a public place for fishing. The state park centers on the 59-acre (24 ha) Beaver Dam Lake ...
The largest known beaver dam is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, Canada, and is 775 metres (2,543 ft) long. [8] Satellite photos provided by NASA WorldWind show the dam did not exist in 1975, but it appeared in subsequent images. It has two or more lodges and is a combination of two original dams.
55-05900. GNIS feature ID. 1561457 [2] Website. www.cityofbeaverdam.com. Beaver Dam is a city in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States, along Beaver Dam Lake and the Beaver Dam River. The population was 16,708 at the 2020 census, making it the largest city primarily located in Dodge County. [5]
Macoupin Creek is a 99.7-mile-long (160.5 km) [2] tributary of the Illinois River, which it joins near the village of Hardin, Illinois . The word macoupin refers to the yellow pond lily [3] [4] ( Nuphar advena ), a native plant of the regional wetlands, and a favorite food source of local Indians. It has a large rootstock (a tuber) that was ...
Frederick Martin MacMurray was born on August 30, 1908, in Kankakee, Illinois, the son of Maleta (née Martin) and concert violinist Frederick Talmadge MacMurray, both natives of Wisconsin. His aunt, Fay Holderness, was a vaudeville performer and actress. When MacMurray was an infant, his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where his father ...
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber). [23] It is native to North America and has been introduced in South America (Patagonia) and Europe (primarily Finland and Karelia). The North American beaver is one of the official national wildlife of Canada symbols ...
The Battle of Beaver Dams took place on 24 June 1813, during the War of 1812. A column of troops from the United States Army marched from Fort George and attempted to surprise a British outpost at Beaver Dams, billeting themselves overnight in the village of Queenston, Ontario. Laura Secord, a resident of Queenston, had earlier learned of the ...
Richelieu Foods is an American private label food manufacturing company founded in 1862 and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois.It was previously owned by investment group Brynwood Partners and owned by investment group Centerview Partners LLC from 2010 to December 2017, when it was sold to Parsippany, New Jersey-based Freiberger USA Inc., a subsidiary of the German Südzucker AG.