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TITLE:
Fox River Waterway, Extending from Menasha to De Pere to Green Bay, Kaukauna, Outagamie County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,44-KAUK,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Data Page(s): 68 plus cover page

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
U.S.Army Corps of Engineers

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-83

Building/structure dates: 1850 initial construction

Part of building/structure is in Menasha, Winnebago County, WI.

Significance: The Lower Fox River Waterway is significant as the State of Wisconsin's only existing canal system. Built to facilitate steamboat navigation, the system contains composite, quarried stone and concrete locks as well as dams and remains a remarkably well preserved example of the technology of canal construction.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Outagamie County--Kaukauna

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.wi0358

CONTROL #:
WI0358

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