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ALTERNATE VIEW OF IL-164-A-17 OF TAINTER GATE. LOOKING WEST. - Illinois Waterway, La Grange Lock and Dam, 3-4 mile south of Country 795N at Illinois River, Versailles, Brown County, IL
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Grogan, Brian
Title
ALTERNATE VIEW OF IL-164-A-17 OF TAINTER GATE. LOOKING WEST. - Illinois Waterway, La Grange Lock and Dam, 3-4 mile south of Country 795N at Illinois River, Versailles, Brown County, IL
Description
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District; Griffin, A F; Le Gromwell, Paul; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District; Kansas City Bridge Company; Bass Engineering and Construction Company; Independent Bridge Company; Hunter Steel Company; Calumet Ship and Dry Dock Company; Lydecker, Garrett; Handbury, Thomas H; Dudley, Ira M; Deiss, Ron, project manager; Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, sponsor; Lockett, Dana, project manager; Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Depicted place Illinois; Brown County; Versailles
Date Documentation compiled after 1968; 2007
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER IL-164-A-18
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: La Grange Lock and Dam is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, which was developed to provide a navigable route from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River and beyond. La Grange Dam is significant as one of the few surviving examples of a dam with Chanoine wicket gates in this country.
  • Survey number: HAER IL-164-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1936-1939 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1970- before. 1979 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1984 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1990 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 04000170.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il0921.photos.575263p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location39° 53′ 06″ N, 90° 39′ 20.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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