File:DETAIL VIEW OF UPSTREAM LOCK GATE. LOOKING EAST SOUTHEAST. - Illinois Waterway, Peoria Lock and Dam, 1071 Wesley Road, Creve Coeur, Tazewell County, IL HAER IL-164-B-13.tif

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DETAIL VIEW OF UPSTREAM LOCK GATE. LOOKING EAST SOUTHEAST. - Illinois Waterway, Peoria Lock and Dam, 1071 Wesley Road, Creve Coeur, Tazewell County, IL
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Grogan, Brian
Title
DETAIL VIEW OF UPSTREAM LOCK GATE. LOOKING EAST SOUTHEAST. - Illinois Waterway, Peoria Lock and Dam, 1071 Wesley Road, Creve Coeur, Tazewell County, IL
Description
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District; Griffin, A F; Farrar, Walter B; Le Gromwell, Paul; Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company; C.A. Hooper Company; Calumet Shipyard and Dock Company; Hunter Steel Company; High Point Lumber Company; Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation; Chicago Wood Piling Company; Kingston Lake Gravel Company; Strobel Construction Company; A.H. Knudson and Company; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, sponsor; Lockett, Dana, project manager; Deiss, Ron, project manager; Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Depicted place Illinois; Tazewell County; Creve Coeur
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-B-13
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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: The Peoria Lock and Dam site is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, which provided a navigable route from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River and beyond. Peoria Dam is also significant as one of the few surviving examples of a dam with Chanoine wicket gates in this country.
  • Survey number: HAER IL-164-B
  • Building/structure dates: 1935-1939 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1970- before. 1979 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1986-1988 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 0400169.

Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il0924.photos.575285p
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Object location40° 37′ 55″ N, 89° 37′ 30″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
The geographical information in this file was retrospectively estimated.
The location may therefore be somewhat imprecise.
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