The Mississippi River touches 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is one of the largest rivers in the world. To prove their point, they paid the steamer Lamartine $200 to journey from St. Paul to the cataract. pdf i74-mrc-bro.pdf (663.5 kB) Download the I-74 Mississippi River Crossings Brochure. In 1873, Congress lost patience with the Mississippi River Improvement and Manufacturing Company and appropriated $25,000 for the Corps to begin the project.85 But Congress required the state to return the land grant before the Corps could start. The Mississippi River lies entirely within the United States. Vol. Few boats plied the river above Galena. St. Paul recorded 41 steamboat arrivals in 1844, and 95 in 1849. The project would permanently reshape the river between Lock and Dam 1 (the Ford Dam) and St. Anthony Falls. Petersen, Steamboating, p. 298, also recognizes the railroad at Rock Island as the first to reach the river. For months he had studied them, conferred with subordinates, undertaken personal reconnaissances and endured failures. Cadwallader C. Washburn and his brother William D., the Minneapolis Mill Company's owners and two of the city's most powerful and prominent millers, adamantly opposed locks and dams. In 1867, they held, according to one historian, the most important navigation improvement convention before 1873. 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. The young Daly recalled in his memoir that he could distinctly hear the grinding of her bottom on the gravel bar over which she was passing.23 Some boats ground to a halt on sandbars. Raymond Merritt, Creativity, Conflict & Controversy: A History of the St. Paul District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979); Roald Tweet, A History of Rock Island District, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), pp. While the Minnesota legislature appointed someone else to finish Norton's term, Windom won the seat in 1871. Lauren McCoy dove deep to explore how it was a means of freedom. Key local projects included Locks and Dams 1 (Ford Dam) and 2 (Hastings), Lower and Upper St. Anthony Falls Locks and Dams, and the little known Meeker Island Lock and Dam, which was the rivers first and shortest-lived lock and dam (Figure 2). Merrick's father bought a warehouse on the levee from which he ran a storage and transshipping business. Support for the project came from the company's stockholders, navigation boosters and city business leaders. The island divided the river, and the navigation channel sometimes ran on the east side and sometimes on the west. Marker is on Levee Street north of Clay Street, on the left when traveling north. 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. m., over which the annual rainfall averages 34.7 in., and its discharge per second into the Lower Mississippi varies from 25,000 cub. 68-74; Jane Carroll, Dams and Damages: The Ojibway, the United States, and the Mississippi Headwaters Reservoirs, Minnesota History, (Spring, 1990):4-5. Traveling down the Mississippi to Illinois, Daly's family camped for a night a few miles below St. Paul. He does not provide a location for this work and there is no mention of it in later reports, however. However, enslavers and law enforcement officials caught at least five of . Nick seems somewhat disappointed in the Mississippi's appearance, although happy that he has seen the great American river. 109, pp. 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 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. A newly completed lock and dam and another one under construction promised to make Minneapolis the head of navigation. And the Midwest needed the South's cotton, rice, sugar, and molasses. 1; see U.S. Congress, House, Survey of the Upper Mississippi River, Exec. The fourth longest river in the world goes through or forms the border of 10 states. (circa 1850) No connections to the east. Mackenzie added that the Corps would have to build a third lock and dam with a 10.1-foot lift to bring navigation to St. Anthony Falls and a fourth lock to bring navigation above it. Railroad trackage in the United States multiplied from 30,635 miles in 1860, to 52,914 in 1870, and 92,296 in 1880.39 Before the Civil War, only the Rock Island Railroad had bridged the upper Mississippi River from Illinois to Iowa. A movement into central Mississippi ended when Southern cavalrymen captured the Federals supply base at Holly Springs. No. Rivers proved to be an unfailing source of trouble. 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. Midwesterners, however, needed to transform the river, if they hoped to make it a commercial thoroughfare. Hundreds of islands, some forming and others being cut away, divided the natural river, dispersing its waters into innumerable side channels and backwaters. Mississippi River Crossing Needs and Other Crossing Strategies. As with the drive for railroad legislation, the push for waterway improvement was not just a farmers' movement. Those that bowed in and out of the water they labeled preachers. 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. Her father, Albert Kirchner, along with Jacob Richtman, both from Fountain City, Wisconsin, became the leading contractors for the Corps in wing dam construction. The next day, the Federals swept aside a Confederate force at Port Gibson, ensuring a firm Union foothold on the Mississippi Rivers eastern bank. Millers at St. Anthony were profiting from the release of water from the Headwaters Reservoirs, but Minneapolis civic and commercial boosters wanted more than milling. Havighurst, A Wilderness Saga, p. 249; Merrick, Old Times, p. 232. 1578-79. Shermans troops, meanwhile, demonstrated against the citys northern defenses. . Havighurst, A Wilderness Saga, p. 161. In 1855 a railroad entered Galena. 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. Instead of going to St. Louis or New Orleans, a steamboat from St. Paul might unload at La Crosse or Rock Island or at other railheads, and increasingly, most river commerce became local.41, While the river had been hauling grain since the birth of Midwestern agriculture, railroads held too many advantages over the undeveloped waterways. At Dibbles Point, the shoreline had eroded 15 to 20 feet in one year due to a wing dam built at Prescott Island, near Prescott.67 To protect shores from naturally eroding or from being undercut by the constricted channel, the Corps protected hundreds of miles of shoreline with brush mats and rock. The existing Rock River bridges include three federal, one state, and one local crossings. By 1857, St. Paul had become a bustling port, with over 1,000 steamboat arrivals each year by some 62 to 99 boats.2, As rapidly as the number of steamboats increased, they could not keep pace with demand. Doc. Sawmill owners also feared that they would not be able to continue dumping sawdust into the river, as it would obstruct navigation, and boom company operators did not want a dam obstructing the lumber rafts they sent downriver. Congress rejected Meeker's request and the Minnesota Legislature's petition for a land grant in support of a lock and dam in 1866. A. Humphreys, the Chief of Engineers, ordered Brevet Major General and Major of Engineers Gouverneur K. Warren to St. Paul to begin the Corps' work on the upper Mississippi River (Figure 4). 65 Annual Report, 1880, p. 1495. The XV Corps commander argued that Porters gunboats and transports could not run past Vicksburgs batteries. Military supplies and furs would dominate the much smaller steamboat trade above Galena. It required the company to spend $25,000 on the project before February 1, 1871. Carey's 1822 Geographical, Statistical and Historical State Map of Arkansas. The Corps of Engineers was working on a project to save the falls. Port Gibson, MS. is a small town that played a part in the Civil War. Responding in part to Minneapolis business and political interests, he requested $235,665 to construct a lock and dam at Meeker Island, which lay between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Deep pools might run near one bank for a short reach and then jump to the other. Between 1800 and 1860, 'at least 875,000 . It came at the insistence of the states, farmers, business interests and the general public. p. 213. The map shows frontier forts, outposts, and settlements, the primary migration routes of the Oregon Trail, Northern California Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Old San Antonio Road, Emory's Route, and Cooke's Wagon Route. Merrick lists the number or arrivals and the number of boats at St. Paul for each of these years. Over the next nine years he worked his way up to become a cub pilot. From St. Paul to the St. Croix River, the controlling depth at low water was 16 inches. The 2,340 miles of the Mississippi River are entirely within the . During low water, no continuous channel existed. 30, 50-52. Enough said. Railroads, more than the river, would meet the regions need, but not without a price, a price much too high for some. Over the next year, the Grange founded nearly 12,000 chapters and claimed over 858,000 members. Prior to the war, with a few exceptions, Congress and/or the President had opposed a federal role in internal improvements.26, The 1866 act provided for the first project to focus on the whole upper river.27 It directed the Corps to survey the Mississippi River between St. Anthony Falls and the Rock Island Rapids, with a view to ascertain the feasible means, by economizing the water of the stream, of insuring the passage, at all navigable seasons, of boats drawing four feet of water. As Cook had worked for the Washburns, Meeker expected a negative report. Shortly after the glaciers withdrew from southern Minnesota some 10,000 years ago, St. Anthony Falls stretched across the river valley near downtown St. Paul. Crossing the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 20,655 views Nov 24, 2015 77 Dislike Share Save Josh Huffines 578 subscribers Eastbound on I-10 crossing the Mississippi River in. June 4, 2021 7:50 AM. 1491, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 704. and finally crossing near St Cloud. Hillhouse reported that the Caffreys work had included 1,600 feet of wing dams. Sitting on a bluff on the rivers eastern bank and shielded to the north by a maze of swamps, bayous and bluffs, Vicksburg posed a multitude of problems to Union planners. From the quarterboats you could hear the big rocks hitting each other, like a rapid-fire rage. Opponents to the amendment included waterpower magnates William D. Washburn and Richard Chute. Forward thinking entrepreneurs and politicians pushed for the development of such a railroad and in May 1869 the final spike of the Transcontinental Railroad was driven in Promontory Point in Utah. First, the "Stars and Stripes" flag . Jul 1850 LYMAN, Joseph S.; m2. At 692 miles, the Yellowstone River ranks . He estimated that Lock and Dam 1 would cost $568,222 and that Lock and Dam 2 would cost $598,235. Tornado warnings and bow echos were everywhere, but once it crossed the river, it immediately started weakening. . A circular trail connected the head of navigation of the Mississippi River with Pembina, North Dakota. This map shows the completion dates at various points along the route westward from Chicago. 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. But the economic panic of 1857 and the Civil War ended further railroad expansion across the Mississippi. To achieve the 1/2- foot channel, the Corps had to expand upon the channel constriction experiments. There are two locks.93 Minneapolis had somehow won the debate over building one or two dams. Annual Report, 1895, pp. Rafting companies and steamboat interests had employed wing dams to scour the channel at troublesome bars. David A. Lanegran and Anne Mosher-Sheridan, The European Settlement of the Upper Mississippi River Valley: Cairo, Illinois, to Lake Itasca, Minnesota1540 to 1860, in John S. Wozniak ed., Historic Lifestyles in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, (New York: University Press of America, 1983), pp. St. John the Baptist Parish (SJBP, French: Paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.At the 2020 census, the population was 42,477. A bad bar could sever St. Pauls and Hastings connection with St. Louis, the Gulf of Mexico and the world.14 Normally, during the late summer or early fall, the river began falling and would enter the stage steamboat pilots and Corps engineers called low water. Ibid., p. 243; The Select Committee recommended a depth of 5 feet at low water for St. Paul to St. Louis. Then, they would move to the next troublesome reach. It drew national Senators and Representatives from 22 states and the governors of Minnesota, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and Virginia. Construction of the tied-in double-arch structure began in May 1967. The 1993 image was captured slightly after the peak water levels in this part of the Mississippi River. When the white explorers finally reached the valley region, they also adopted the customary mode of crossing long followed by their red predecessors. From 1850 to 1870, it delivered supplies and furs on two-wheeled carts between St. Paul, Minnesota and the frontier. Doc. 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. .65 Once the willow mats had been laid in the water, the workers would sink them with rock. Snags skewered the careless and even the cautious steamboat. Rachel Kramer/CC-BY 2.0. On the night of April 16, with Grant watching from a transport, Porters fleet of gunboats, steamers and barges successfully ran the Confederate batteries, losing only one transport to Southern fire. Grant Stevenson. After the war, he settled in New York. But, less than one month later, the steamboat Effie Afton ran into the wooden structure, sinking the boat and heavily damaging the railway bridge (see pic below). 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. I am very well but much perplexed, he admitted to his wife. The best market for the Midwest's corn, flour, pork, and beef, it claimed, was the South. Crossing the river was essential from the outset. Alberta Kirchner Hill spent 19 summers (1898-1917) with her father's fleet as they built the dams for the government. The desire to improve navigation on the upper river affected the river above the Twin Cities, as well. Later a New City West was built on the Chicago-Detroit road through the dunes area, but this, too, declined after the railroads came through Porter County in the early 1850's. New City West stood in the vicinity of present-day Tremont, on US 12. While the river naturally eroded its banks, closing dams and wing dams accelerated erosion by increasing the channel's velocity and volume. Where steamboat pilots followed the deepest channel, as it hugged one shore or the other, leaning trees might sweep poorly placed cargo or an unwary passenger from a steamboat's deck. 206-09, 209, 246; William J. Petersen, Captains and Cargoes of Early Upper Mississippi Steamboats, Wisconsin Magazine of History 13 (1929_30):227-32; Mildred Hartsough, From Canoe to Steel Barge, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1934), pp. In his report for the 1871 season, Captain Wm. Those that swayed back and forth with the current they called sawyers. . Now as to the duplication of locks and dams; two instead of one. They would build as many wing dams, close as many side channels, and protect as much shoreline as needed to establish a 41/2-foot channel. Examples: a dried up lake, a destroyed building, a hill leveled by mining. Questions had arisen about his sobriety, with the War Department sending an observer to his headquarters. As more settlers arrived in the late 1770s and early 1800s, however, the need for more reliable ways to cross rivers became evident. Some opponents argued that it was the federal government's responsibility to improve the river, not private interests subsidized by the government. After charging men under him to undertake the tributary surveys, Warren began the upper Mississippi survey from the Rock Island Rapids to Minneapolis himself. Grant had come south on a transport and learned from a local black man that Bruinsburg, Miss., a few miles downriver, offered a favorable place for Federal forces to land. However, for the enslaved in the country years ago, the river represented something worlds away from oppression. 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. Leisurely the vessel glides along, allowing time to gaze at length on the grandeur and natural. The first ferries crossing from Piggott's complex to St. Louis were pirogues, small boats similar to canoes, made from hollowed out logs. 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. Twenty-seven river miles downstream, at Hastings, they recorded a rise of about one foot and at Red Wing about one-half foot. Just below this mantle lay a soft sandstone layer. 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. St. Paul suffered a double setback. One measure of this was the number of times steamboats docked at the upper river's port cities. On the night of May 21, 1855, in the area that is now part of the Mississippi Greenway: Riverfront Trail north of the Merchant's Bridge, Mary Meachum attempted to help a small group of enslaved people cross the Mississippi River to Illinois where slavery was outlawed. Studies on the migratory behavior of songbirds are important to inform full annual cycle conservation. Jeffery's 1776 Map of the Course of the Mississippi River from the Balise to Fort Chartres. Their effort resulted in one of the most mysterious and ill-fated projects on the upper river. Below Red Wing, water from the reservoirs had little effect.68. American Memory Project, Library of Congress. As the river fell, each wave formed a bar that acted like a small dam. The many islands dividing the river disbursed the little water available into side channels and sloughs. Wing dams especially caused bank erosion by forcing the river away from one shore and against the other. He describes the immense river as a "solid, shifting lake," a rather perfect description. The Confederates hammered the fleet, preventing a crossing. Westward expansion in the 1850s punctuated the need for a transcontinental railroad. Hundreds of wing dams and closing dams studded the rivers banks from St. Paul to St. Louis. Without enough current, this happened too slowly for navigation. 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