319-320; Kane, St. Anthony, p. 96. The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroads were the first railroads to be built in Iowa reaching Rock Island, Illinois, in August 1854 and connecting with Iowa by a ferry crossing the Mississippi River. Congress initially balked at the projects pork-barrel appearance. . Mackenzie made the surveys, including borings, during the low-water season of 1893 and concluded that the Corps would have to build two locks and dams to bring navigation to the old steamboat landing below the Washington Avenue Bridge. The St. Paul District commander, Major Francis R. Shunk, tried to explain the matter to Minneapolis Mayor J. C. Haynes on February 17, 1909. Tributaries like the Ohio and Missouri join the journey that starts at the top and finishes at the bottom of the country. Warren decided to deepen the upper Mississippi by dredging. To prove their point, they paid the steamer Lamartine $200 to journey from St. Paul to the cataract. In 1869, a tunnel from the toe of the falls to Nicollet Island collapsed just below the island. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Under steam power, people and goods could be transported upstream far more quickly and in greater numbers and quantities than on boats with sails or oars or poles. By a 4-foot channel, Congress meant a channel at least 4 feet deep if the river fell as low as it did in 1864. U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers,1872, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1876-1940), p. 309. Nevertheless, Farquhar optimistically asked for $300,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876.86 Disagreement over the grant and haggling over land for the project, including the purchase of Meeker Island, however, would delay the project for nearly 20 more years.87 St. Paul remained the head of navigation, and the Corps focused its efforts downstream. . . Congress rejected Meeker's request and the Minnesota Legislature's petition for a land grant in support of a lock and dam in 1866. How the Mississippi River Made Mark Twain And Vice Versa No novelist captured the muddy waterway and its people like the creator of Huckleberry Finn, as a journey along the river makes clear. Between 1866 and 1869, three more railroads crossed the river to Iowa, and by 1877, thirteen railroad bridges spanned the upper river (Figure 5).40 Railroads greatly increased the countrys ability to move commodities, and, yet, railroads would provoke and inflame a shipping crisis. Crossing the Mighty Mississippi River From La to Ms highway 82 According to most estimates, the Yellowstone River measures approximately 692 miles (1,114 kilometers) long. The conservationist and local hero hails from the Quad Cities, a 300,000-person metropolitan area spanning two states on either side of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River facilitated this growth in two ways. They needed local navigation projects, but these did little good without a navigable river downstream. Warren brought new hope for the project, when, in his 1867 annual report, he requested $235,665 to construct a lock and dam at Meeker Island.78 Warren engaged Franklin Cook, a former employee of the Minneapolis Mill Company, to undertake the survey. The Crossing connects West Memphis to downtown Memphis. Annual Report, 1872, pp. Few boats plied the river above Galena. As Mackenzie anticipated, Congress, under pressure from Minneapolis to do something, provided $50,000 to the Corps to remove boulders, which the Engineers did during the summer of 1890 and in 1891. Or a series of deeper pools separated by shallow sandbars could be scattered across the main channel. In 1855 a railroad entered Galena. Trees filled and enshrouded it. And, did Kelley want to make the Grange into the radical organization it became during the early 1870s, or did events force the Grange that way? . This misplaces the authority for authorizing the project with the Corps instead of Congress and makes the Corps a proactive proponent of the project, which she does not demonstrate they were. To get off, pilots sometimes used spars, long wood poles on which the front and back of the boats would be alternately jacked up and pushed forward. Rachel Kramer/CC-BY 2.0. Some easterners came to take the fashionable tour. Arriving in St. Louis or at other railheads on the river's east bank, these excursionists traveled upstream, sometimes to St. Anthony Falls, imbibing the river's beauty (see the above references). I t took approximately 300 years from 1500 to 1800 for European population to extend from the East Coast of America to the Mississippi River. June 4, 2021 7:50 AM. Nick seems somewhat disappointed in the Mississippi's appearance, although happy that he has seen the great American river. He evidently was a cattle herder in Mississippi, with many vouchers for his work. Overall, Warren found that those who had been using the river evince a shrewd knowledge of the action of running water and the means of temporarily controlling it, gained by their constant experience and observation.33 Warren listened to these knowledgeable sources, but came to his own conclusions. To secure their objective, the company needed support from businessmen in Minneapolis, and for that support, Minneapolis interests won back control of the company. Anfinson, Secret History, Minnesota History 54:6 (Summer 1995):254-67. Quincy and Cairo, Illinois, became railheads in 1856, and East St. Louis, Illinois, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1857. The 4-foot project did not greatly alter the river's physical or ecological character and did not improve the river much for navigation, but it initiated a series of navigation projects that would do both. I could even smell the delightfully blended odor of the willows and of the creosoted marline twine with which the bundles were held together. William Washburn went so far as to purchase land at one of the reservoir sites in anticipation of a private or federal project there and later gave the land to the government. No. It was a method that had proven successful in France and elsewhere.36 Mississippi River pilots had learned that by running their paddle wheels over the crest of a bar, they helped the river cut through it, allowing the flow from the pool to deepen the cut just enough for the boat to pass. But it held little chance of success and was eventually abandoned. 148, 151-52, 155; Schonberger, Transportation to the Seaboard, pp. The dangers of navigating the natural river were so great, he said, that pilots had to memorize every bluff, hill, rock, tree, stump, house, woodpile, and whatever else is to be noted along the banks of the river.21 And pilots, he added, learned The artistic quality in handling of a boat under the usual conditionsin making the multitudinous crossings, . A traveler glides down the river, without much disturbance due to the shallow draft of the vessel. While railroads could send many cars in both directions with full cargoes, barges delivering their commodities at St. Louis or New Orleans or points in between too often returned empty.43. Low water was based on the rivers elevation in 1864, when a severe drought occurred. The Engineers did not build all the works depicted in one area at the same time. The committee recommended that Congress authorize surveys and get cost estimates prepared as early as possible in order to mature a plan for the radical improvement of the river, and of all its navigable tributaries.58 The committee suggested that the Corps establish a channel of 41/2 to 6 feet for the upper Mississippi River.59 To create a channel of these depths, the committee acknowledged, would require constricting the river with wing dams and closing dams.60. Citizens of the old Northwest Territory states had urged operations to clear their historic avenue of commerce. James Piggott, a late eighteenth century pioneer, settled in Cahokia and established a ferry operation, providing passage to St. Louis for travelers on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. But City West soon declined and passed out of existence. The Mississippi River is the second longest river in North America measuring a total length of 2320 miles from its traditional source at Lake Itasca. Jeffery's 1776 Map of the Course of the Mississippi River from the Balise to Fort Chartres. Many just mention herds of Government cattle, but one, for 305 head in June of 1863, specifically mentions Texas cattle. But, as a result of the economic panic beginning that year, a number of unprecedented droughts and the Civil War, navigation, they brashly claimed, had receded some sixteen miles, to St. Paul, where all the freight destined to these cities, (Minneapolis and St. Anthony) and the vast regions north and west . (circa 1850) No connections to the east. This will then be shared on a discussion board with . During the frontier era, settlers used old animal and Indian trails, fording most streams or building crude rafts to cross larger rivers. 14-15: the rule has been to place them, in straight reaches, five-sevenths of the proposed channel width apart; in curved reaches, one-half on the concave sides and the full width on the convex sides. Sandbars determined the river's overall navigability. Cassville's first ferry, a 40-foot rowboat, crossed the Mississippi River in 1833. Doc. George Byron Merrick captures well the perils of sailing the natural river. Born in Niles, Michigan, on the St. Joseph River, Merrick watched steamboats go back and forth between South Bend, Indiana, and the town of St. Joseph on Lake Michigan.17 When Merrick was 12 years old, his family left Michigan and traveled to Rock Island, Illinois. He hoped to restore the dying river connection between St. Paul and St. Louis. Heretofore I have had nothing to do but fight the enemy. The Civil War then delayed construction of the railroad. The Mississippi flows for some 2,300 miles, from Minneapolis to New Orleans, and into the Gulf of Mexico. 106-7. 58, pp. By authorizing the 41/2-foot channel project, Congress directed the Corps to remake the upper Mississippi. . The remaining maps focused on problem reaches or detailed the river near a specific town.32 From these maps and from what he would learn about early navigation improvements, Warren began planning the 4-foot channel project. Background on the Crossing Strategy To examine Quad Cities crossing needs, a study was conducted between 1996 and 1998 that culminated in the identification of three crossing improvements in the . There is the city of St. Paul, and there is the city of Minneapolis. By Staff Writer Last Updated April 06, 2020. Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long both not only commented on how confined the river became above Hastings, they rowed its width to see how few strokes they needed. And the Midwest needed the South's cotton, rice, sugar, and molasses. Major Francis R. Shunk to Minneapolis Mayor J. C. Haynes, February 17, 1909. 341, p. 14; Annual Report, 1879, p. 111, see figures 1, 2, and 3 and Plate 3. There they took a steamboat upriver to Prescott, Wisconsin, some 30 miles below St. Paul, arriving in June 1854. Many trees fell into the water to become snags. At Guttenberg, Iowa, an island split the river into two channels, one passing in front of the city and the other running along the Wisconsin side. U.S. Congress, House, Survey of Upper Mississippi River, Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House, of December 20, 1866, transmitting report of the Chief of Engineers, with General Warrens report of the surveys of the Upper Mississippi river and its tributaries, 39th Congress, 2d Session, Ex. Without enough current, this happened too slowly for navigation. Examples: a dried up lake, a destroyed building, a hill leveled by mining. . The area is ideal for classic resort cabin or camping vacations. Well aware of the agrarian unrest, he had warned the Senate that, this issue would inevitably be forced on the Exec. Two of the 1850's most significant corporate developments was the original New York Central Railroad's formation on May 17, 1853 and the Erie Railroad's completion in the spring of 1851. . Native American at back of boat (detail), Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, oil on canvas, 378.5 x 647.7 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Despite Leutze's interest in history, there is little historical accuracy to be found within the painting. The 2,340 miles of the Mississippi River are entirely within the . Desiring to keep traffic flowing past their city, the citizens had attempted to close the Wisconsin channel but had been unsuccessful. 1851 (age 35), Goddard, George He came from England with his wife and seven children, five of whom died before reaching Utah. Minnesota Historical Society. In 1836, the ferry carried a 23-year-old New Yorker named Nelson Dewey across the river. Ibid. Studies on the migratory behavior of songbirds are important to inform full annual cycle conservation. Besides preserving the Mississippi's birthplace, Itasca State Park anchors the headwaters region that includes the 88-mile Lake Country Scenic Byway linking the towns of Park Rapids, Detroit Lakes and Walker. Bridgehunter.com | Ferry | Page 2 David Garlick and Elizabeth Buck (Found on the Internet . Military supplies and furs would dominate the much smaller steamboat trade above Galena. Many passengers came from the East; others came from Europe, fleeing famine in Ireland and political unrest on the continent. . There the Union defeated the confederates which led to the eventual fall of Vicksburg. Warren had recommended that Congress fund a survey of the upper Mississippi River's headwaters and tributaries in his 1869 report. A 1903-1905 Corps navigation map shows the river ribbed with wing dams and closing dams and lined with hundreds of miles of riprap. 92-93; Kane, Rivalry, p. 312. If lucky, they avoided hogging the boat; that is, warping or breaking its hull.24. No. Other boats had been plying the upper riverIndian canoes, piroques, flatboats and keelboatsbut the Virginia announced a new era. Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream, Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Egineers, (Austin: University of Texas, 1994), p. 141. His prices were high$8 to cross a wagon at high water, falling to $6 by early July. ft. to 550,000 cub. A significant historical month for this entry is October 1885. The focus of Corps work between 1878 and 1906, the 41/2-foot channel became the first system-wide, intensive navigation improvement project for the upper Mississippi River. Twenty-seven river miles downstream, at Hastings, they recorded a rise of about one foot and at Red Wing about one-half foot. Rivers proved to be an unfailing source of trouble. Due to the collapse of this tunnel, St. Anthony Falls was in danger of eroding away. a splashing began. And in a speech before the Senate, he asserted that it was an admitted fact that present transportation facilities between the interior and the seaboard were totally inadequate. These transportation networks, he charged, were controlled by powerful monopolies who dictate their own terms to the people. Location. At Lock and Dam 1, the Engineers had begun constructing the lock.92 Few, if any, spectators watching the Itura paddle through Lock 2 imagined that the new facility would be destroyed within 5 years. From the St. Croix to the Illinois River it varied from 18 to 24 inches.15 A few miles below St. Paul, the river sometimes became so shallow that boats would have to stop within sight of the city.16 The folklore that people once waded across the Mississippi is true. In response, farmers in the Midwest and throughout the nation joined the first national farm movement, called the Grange or Patrons of Husbandry. p. 213. Locations are listed with the left bank (moving downriver) listed first. Portending the coming conflict with Minneapolis, St. Paul citizens criticized the project, as it would steal from them their valuable position as the head of navigation. Not even a severe t-storm watch was issued. The island divided the river, and the navigation channel sometimes ran on the east side and sometimes on the west. 311-12; Kane adds that during these years Meeker had sought to get the required completion date extended. The burdens they impose upon both consumer and producer are too grievous to be long endured.55 On March 26, 1873, responding to Windom, the Grange and the transportation crisis, the Senate directed Windoms committee to study the problem.56, On April 24, 1874, Windoms committee submitted its report to the Senate. St. Paul and Minneapolis pushed especially hard. , This ferry crossed the Mississippi River near the small town of Batchtownin Calhoun Countyinto Lincoln County, Missouri connecting with Route 79. Before he could develop a plan for achieving the 4-foot channel, Warren had to learn more about the upper Mississippi River and he had to complete his survey. Kane, Rivalry, pp. Railroads have got enough for the present. The small streams were crossed by fording; the larger ones by swimming the teams, wagons and all. Petersen, Captains, p. 235; Tweet, History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pp. Annual Report, 1873, p. 411; Annual Report, 1874, p. 287. This map shows the completion dates at various points along the route westward from Chicago. The many islands dividing the river disbursed the little water available into side channels and sloughs. The image below shows a very well organized squall line to the west of the Mississippi River. They also demanded a navigable river so they could deliver the bounty of their labor and their new land to the country and the world. Missouri, during the "Golden Age of Steamboats" (1830-1850). In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. Reeling from Chicago's increasing dominance over the region's trade, they saw the river as their best counteroffensive. In this act, Congress directed the Corps to extend navigation to the Washington Avenue Bridge by constructing Lock and Dam 2.91 While it did not mention Lock and Dam 1, Congress called for improving the river from near the mouth of the Minnesota River to the Washington Avenue Bridge, indicating that another lock and dam would be built below Meeker Island. Upstream from Vicksburg, the river bent north in a broad loop before turning south again, forming a peninsula opposite the city. Date Posted: 9/18/2012 1:45:33 PM. Pike, Sources of the Mississippi, p. 24; Keating, Narrative of an Expedition, p. 297. Major General Ulysses S. Grant stood over maps searching for answers. Congress, however, would soon authorize new projects for the upper Mississippi River that would make this impossible. He would become one of the Senate's strongest advocates for railroad regulation and navigation improvement.52, The rapidly growing strength of the Granger movement in Minnesota and the threat of railroad monopolies spurred Windom to address the transportation issue with zeal. Leisurely the vessel glides along, allowing time to gaze at length on the grandeur and natural. . The U.S. Army established a post at the bridge in 1855, when tension was mounting between emigrants and Native Americans. Having accomplished nothing as the deadline approached, the company spent $26,000 during late 1870 and early 1871. When the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad was completed in 1854 under the direction of Henry Farnam and his partner Joseph Sheffield, it became the first to connect the East with the Mississippi River. His . 309-10. Finally, and recognizing the emerging power of railroads, the state asserted that the river is now and ever will be and remain the great regulator and moderator of fares and freights among the rival carriers of the commerce of the west. Referring to the Civil War, the state implored Congress to recollect with what haste and facility the various railroad lines combined to increase the cost of travel, and double, and in some instances triple and quadruple, the cost of transporting the produce of the west during the late non-intercourse measures in the Lower Mississippi. The river would bind the country together again.77. Minnesota's population jumped from 6,077 to 172,023, Iowa's from 192,000 to 674,913, Wisconsin's from 305,391 to 775,881 and Illinois' from 851,470 to 1,711,951.9 Passenger traffic became so important to the steamboat trade that by 1850 passenger receipts exceeded freight receipts.10, Before 1866, during the heyday of steamboats, the upper Mississippi River still possessed most of its natural character. These slight dams, Warren commented, had been somewhat successful, indicating a way of deepening the low-water channel worthy of special attention. But these measures had been only temporary; high water usually swept the dams away. H. Doc. pdf i74-mrc-bro.pdf (663.5 kB) Download the I-74 Mississippi River Crossings Brochure. The miller's fear, he said, "is another waterpower that might result incidentally from our effort to get Boats to the Falls of St. Anthony.75, Minneapolis navigation boosters clearly saw that Meeker's project would extend navigation above St. Paul, which was their primary reason for supporting it. It did, however, authorize the Corps of Engineers to survey the reach between Fort Snelling and St. Anthony Falls, along with its general survey of the upper Mississippi River. The bridge was included in the Phase II survey as it is a large of exceptional span or overall length, which according . The charming shops of downtown Bemidji / Lisa Meyers McClintick Other Sites Along the Great River. it is destined to become the most popular region of the world, and its waters should forever be kept free and untrammelled and open to the use of every citizen within the entire navigable length, and all obstructions, whether natural or of human device, are like impediments to the prosperity of the people who till the soil of the great valley.". 32 21.065 N, 90 53.032 W. Marker is in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in Warren County. Between 1823 and 1847, most boats carried lead and worked around Galena, Illinois. 23-25; Tweet, A History of the Rock Island District, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 1866-1983, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), p. 39; William J. Petersen, Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi, (Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1968), pp. Xcel Energy and CapX2020 partners navigate the permitting and construction of a significant river crossing. On June 7, 1868, the Minneapolis Daily Tribune claimed that the Meeker Island lock and dam would transfer the commercial prestige of this upper country from St. Paul to the Magnet.80 St. Paul industrial boosters also claimed victory. Steamboat traffic grew quickly after 1823. Windom had already served in the House for a decade. In his report for the 1871 season, Captain Wm. . According to one historian, 'the Mississippi River gave slavery a whole new lease on life' (Johnson, 2013: 6-7, 146). No. St. Louis merchants were among the Mississippi River's greatest advocates. In 1872, Captain J. Throckmorton argued that while wing dams would probably not work for the upper river, closing dams would. Photo by Henry P. Bosse. Marker is on Levee Street north of Clay Street, on the left when traveling north. A favorable landing site on the east bank would have to be located, while other operations would be necessary to distract the Confederates. The Confederates hammered the fleet, preventing a crossing. Flood waters had started to recede, but remained . John O. Anfinson, The Secret History of the Mississippi's Earliest Locks and Dams, Minnesota History 54:6 (Summer 1995):254-67. From the quarterboats you could hear the big rocks hitting each other, like a rapid-fire rage. Dewey was lured to Cassville by its promise as the potential capital of the Wisconsin Territory. Crossing the river was essential from the outset. Sandbars posed the most persistent and frequent problem. They would have to alter the pattern by which sand and silt moved along the river bottom. Jul 1850 LYMAN, Joseph S.; m2. Hundreds of wing dams and closing dams studded the rivers banks from St. Paul to St. Louis. 530, 1649-50; Annual Report, 1907, pp. issues at that time included . The Mississippi River touches 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is one of the largest rivers in the world. 152-53. Merrick's father bought a warehouse on the levee from which he ran a storage and transshipping business. The Engineers or their contractors placed the rock and brush in layers until a dam rose above the water surface to a level that would guarantee a minimum 41/2-foot channel (Figure 9).64. Railroads moved their freight quicker, giving their users greater flexibility in responding to market changes. However, Paxson, whom he cites, shows that the railroad completed tracks from Alton to Springfield, Illinois, in 1852, and then from Springfield to Chicago, via a roundabout route, in 1853, but did not have the line in operation until 1854. Annual Report, 1908, pp. U.S. Congress, House, Survey of Upper Mississippi River, 39th Congress, 2d sess., House Ex. Echoing the beliefs of their counterparts downstream, Minneapolis boosters pointed to the divine purpose of their project. Simple Add/Edit Procedure . 341, pp. And Congress had authorized, that year, a sixth dam for the Headwaters, the one at Gull Lake. Image: This cotton . In addition to its transport role for goods, the river acted as a conduit for the slaves' journey to the Deep South. The Hernando de Soto Bridge, named after the Spanish explorer who reached the Mississippi River in 1541, opened to automobile traffic on August 2, 1973. Throughout his article (pp. In these reaches, Warren found that the river seems, as it were, lost, and indecisive which way to go and the pilot is scarcely able to find the line of deepest water even in daylight, and is unable to proceed at night with any confidence.31 The small pools behind the bars would play an important part in Warren's strategy for navigation improvement on the upper river. ft. From the building boat, Alberta Kirchner recalled, . Ibid., p. 243; The Select Committee recommended a depth of 5 feet at low water for St. Paul to St. Louis. Ibid., pp. It came to me strongly every time the men hoisted a swishing bundle of brush to their gunny-sack-protected shoulders. Cook completed his survey between 1866 and 1867 and, to Meeker's surprise, recommended that a lock and dam be constructed at Meeker Island, with a 13-foot lift.79 Cook's report and lobbying by Representative Donnelly and Senator Alexander Ramsey finally convinced Congress to give the State of Minnesota a 200,000-acre land grant to finance the dam, rather than having the Corps build it. Grant rejected any idea of a retreat. Annual Report, 1890, p. 2034; Annual Report, 1892, pp. Assistant Engineer W.A. The St. Paul businessmen included William E. McNair, Eugene M. Wilson, William S. King, Edward Murphy, and Isaac Atwater. In his memoirs Grant wrote of that signal achievement: When this was effected, I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equaled since.I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy. Barns also argues that Kelley came away from his southern trip with the idea for the Grange, and that Kelley had a more radical organization in mind from the outset than Buck and other historians admit. On the early part of the journey, before they reached the Mississippi river, they bought four oxen trying to find a pair that was matched and would work together on the long haul to Oregon. You will then create a visual (posterboard, glogster, MS Word, etc.) Formed in 1868 by Oliver Hudson Kelley, a Minnesota farmer who had moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a clerk in the Department of Agriculture, the Grange had established nearly 1,400 chapters in 25 states by 1873 (Figure 6).44 The number of chapters multiplied to more than 10,000 by the end of the year. Shanai Matteson, an artist and community organizer who grew up in Palisade, stands at the site where the Line 3 oil pipeline will cross underneath the Mississippi River . In 1854 the Minnesota Pioneer,a St. Paul newspaper, reported that passengers and freight overflowed from every steamboat that arrived and that the present tonnage on the river is by no means sufficient to handle one-half the business of the trade.3 While two steamboats often left St. Paul each day, they could not carry goods away as quickly as merchants and farmers deposited it, and many upper river cities mirrored St. Paul.4 Each steamboat that docked created new business and a greater backlog, as more immigrants disembarked to establish farms and businesses.5, Spurred by Indian land cessions that opened much of the Midwest between 1820 and 1860, by Iowa's statehood in 1846 and Wisconsin's in 1848 and by the creation of the Minnesota Territory in 1849, passenger traffic on the upper river boomed. 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