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Part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway: five locks with hand-operated wooden gates, a guard lock, a dam, canal, boathouse, drydock, lock-keeper's house, and various sheds. [51] All help vessels around a 50-foot rapids in the Fox River. Constructed in the 1850s by private companies. Largely rebuilt in the 1880s by the Army Corps of Engineers. [52] 26
The lock and dam system consists of a concrete structure 940 feet (286.5 m) long with five roller gates and 11 tainter gates, a segment of earth embankment 8,100 feet (2,468.9 m) long from the dam to French Island separated by a concrete spillway 1,000 feet (304.8 m) long, and another embankment 2,400 feet (731.5 m) long from French Island to ...
Wisconsin state line: La Crosse West Channel Bridge: Houston: La Crescent: 1.712: 2.755: MN 16 west (Historic Bluff Country Scenic Byway) / Great River Road south / CSAH 6 west to MN 26 – Hokah, Rushford: North end of MN 16 overlap; south end of Great River Road overlap: Winona: Dresbach Township: 4.074: 6.556: 276: I-90 east – La Crosse ...
Another bridge, the La Crosse West Channel Bridge connects Barron Island to La Crescent, Minnesota. The Mississippi River Bridge carries U.S. Routes 14 and 61 with WI 16. There is another bridge about four miles upstream, the I-90 Mississippi River Bridge that connects North La Crosse, French Island, and Dresbach, Minnesota. [2]
The Stillwater Bridge (alternatively known as the Stillwater Lift Bridge, St. Croix River Bridge at Stillwater, Mn/DOT Bridge #4654, and Wis/DOT Bridge #M-61) is a vertical-lift bridge crossing the St. Croix River between Stillwater, Minnesota, and Houlton, Wisconsin. It formerly connected Minnesota State Highway 36 and Wisconsin Highway 64.
Many of the Wisconsin's islands in Lake Michigan are around the Door Peninsula. [3] Islands in Green Bay include those in and around the Green Bay Breakwater. Washington Island is Wisconsin's largest in Lake Michigan and also has a year-round population of 708 as of the 2010 census.
During the 1920s, the park's commission began leasing land on the southern part of the island for the construction of cottages. This practice gained popularity in the 1950s, but was ended by the city in the late 1970s. [8] the last cottages were evicted in 1983. [1] Today, several offshore houseboats are still located on the southern end of the ...
After being laid up in 1874, she gradually filled with water and sank near Superior, Wisconsin. [105] Alice Craig: Wooden schooner 1857 1887 Reported to have either foundered off Bayfield, Wisconsin, or driven ashore on Bark Point and destroyed. [106] Ashland: Wooden tug 1867 1937 Abandoned in 1937, salvaged, and then towed to Red Cliff Bay ...