Military supplies and furs would dominate the much smaller steamboat trade above Galena. Over the next year, the Grange founded nearly 12,000 chapters and claimed over 858,000 members. The Upper Mississippi, that is the Mississippi from its source to the mouth of the Missouri, drains 173,000 sq. In 1876, he returned to Wisconsin to becomefittinglya railway agent. Rafting companies and steamboat interests had employed wing dams to scour the channel at troublesome bars. At Rock Island in 1856, the Chicago and Rock Island became the first railroad to cross the Mississippi. 259, 262; Laws of the United States, pp., 155-56; H. Exec. Connected with this matter is a secret history, upon which I proceed as discreetly as may be to cast a little light. For months he had studied them, conferred with subordinates, undertaken personal reconnaissances and endured failures. In his next report, Warren had suggested a system of 41 reservoirs for the St. Croix, Chippewa, Wisconsin and Mississippi River basins. Mississippi River Crossing Needs and Other Crossing Strategies. Nick seems somewhat disappointed in the Mississippi's appearance, although happy that he has seen the great American river. The wing dams' success depended upon the main channel's volume and velocity. At 692 miles, the Yellowstone River ranks . As early as 1850, Minneapolis business and civic leaders had tried to convince shippers that steamboats could reach the falls. The Engineers were to create a permanent, continuous navigation channel, 41/2-feet deep at low-water, for the entire river between St. Paul and the mouth of the Illinois River at Alton. Acknowledging the obvious local appearance of its request, the state touted the projects interregional benefits. Snags could, in an instant, impale a steamboat or tear it apart.11 The natural river became surprisingly narrow in places. 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. 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. Lester Shippee, Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi after the Civil War: A Mississippi Magnate, Mississippi Valley Historical Review 6:4 (March 1920):496; Dixon, A Traffic History, p. 49; Hartsough, Canoe, pp. Merrick's father bought a warehouse on the levee from which he ran a storage and transshipping business. . Sandbars posed the most persistent and frequent problem. There are two locks.93 Minneapolis had somehow won the debate over building one or two dams. Pilots, Merrick recounted, had to study the nightmares first. 2, 62nd Cong., 3d sess., Doc. Annual Report, 1890, p. 2034; Annual Report, 1892, pp. And the Midwest needed the South's cotton, rice, sugar, and molasses. The 1993 image was captured slightly after the peak water levels in this part of the Mississippi River. This measurement takes into account the full mainstem of the river. After charging men under him to undertake the tributary surveys, Warren began the upper Mississippi survey from the Rock Island Rapids to Minneapolis himself. 318-19. Crossing the river was essential from the outset. Ibid., p. 243; The Select Committee recommended a depth of 5 feet at low water for St. Paul to St. Louis. In 1976, repairs were made to the west abutment and four piers on the west side of the bridge. Historical Features are physical or cultural features that are no longer visible on the landscape. Crossing the Mighty Mississippi River From La to Ms highway 82 Annual Report, 1894, pp. Bradley B. Meeker and Dorilus Morrison formed the Mississippi River Improvement and Manufacturing Company in 1857, with a group of Minneapolis businessmen, to develop this potential. 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 . From Minneapolis' perspective, the channel improvement works on the upper Mississippi River only benefitted its principal rivalSt. A favorable landing site on the east bank would have to be located, while other operations would be necessary to distract the Confederates. 1491, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 704. . The Mississippi River touches 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is one of the largest rivers in the world. Warren decided to deepen the upper Mississippi by dredging. . There is the city of St. Paul, and there is the city of Minneapolis. In 1892, Mackenzie again insisted that only locks and dams could regularly entice steamboats above Meeker Island; any other efforts, he charged, wasted time and money.89, Signaling a possible break, the Chief of Engineers, on February 15, 1893, directed Mackenzie to prepare new and exact estimates for locks and dams for this portion of the river . ft. to 550,000 cub. Navigation boosters in Minneapolis failed, however, to convince Congress of the importance of their project. 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. Starting in northern Minnesota, the Mississippi River flows by Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Photo by Henry P. Bosse. The first bridge to cross the river here, the Eads Bridge, was completed in 1874 and is still used today. From this time forward, the Corps' role in the river would become as deep and broad as the river itself. Doc. Railroads have got enough for the present. Hillhouse reported that the Caffreys work had included 1,600 feet of wing dams. Focusing on navigation, the Minnesota Legislature, in 1866, petitioned Congress to authorize navigation improvements above St. Paul and requested the land grant on behalf of Meeker's company. Rail lines were generally shorter, more direct, and could reach deep into lands served by no navigable rivers. 84-85, 91. Artist: Thompson Ritchie. Steamboat traffic grew quickly after 1823. You will then create a visual (posterboard, glogster, MS Word, etc.) The first enslaved Africans brought to the colony during the John Law Company period (1717-1731) were housed directly across from the settlement on the West Bank in what is now Algiers Point. By Staff Writer Last Updated April 06, 2020. Not only could the steamboat haul freight, but it had comfortable accommodations for passengers. 341, pp. 2103-04; Annual Report, 1869, p. 237; Annual Report, 1901, p. 2309; Raymond H. Merritt, The Corps, the Environment, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), p. 1; Merritt, Creativity, pp. Construction of the tied-in double-arch structure began in May 1967. During the 1850s, traffic soared. Carey's 1814 Map of Missouri Territory formally Louisiana. 65-66; Roald Tweet, A History of Navigation Improvements on the Rock Island Rapids, (Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, April 1980):2; John O. Jensen, Gently Down the Stream: An Inquiry into the History of Transportation on the Northern Mississippi River and the Potential for Submerged Cultural Resources, Wisconsin Archeologist 73:1-2 (March-June, 1992):71, says that only about 20 boats were operating above Galena before 1847. During the frontier era, settlers used old animal and Indian trails, fording most streams or building crude rafts to cross larger rivers. In 1854 the first two railroads reached the Mississippi River: the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad at Rock Island, Illinois, and the Chicago and Alton at Alton, Illinois. Millers at St. Anthony Falls especially pushed for reservoirs above the falls. Throughout his article (pp. If the company failed to do so, the state threatened to rescind the grant and issue it to another company. Despite the frustrations and controversies, he had assured his wife: Vicksburg will be a hard job. Havighurst, A Wilderness Saga, p. 161. Pike, Sources of the Mississippi, p. 24; Keating, Narrative of an Expedition, p. 297. Grant rejected any idea of a retreat. As water and ice eroded the sandstone out from underneath the limestone at the edge of the falls, the limestone broke off in large slabs, and the falls receded. June 4, 2021 7:50 AM. At this point only 310 miles of levees had been built along the river, allowing for expanded cotton production within the Delta region of the state. . . It flows south at a speed of 1.2 miles per hour to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico and forms the second largest drainage system in North America after the Hudson Bay. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Kane, Rivalry, pp. In 1805-06 the pioneer expedition of U.S. Army officer Zebulon Montgomery Pike struggled to within 80 miles (130 km) of the river's source, and in 1832 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent for the U.S. government, identified and named Lake Itasca (from the Latin veritas caput, "true head") as the Mississippi's starting point. 2, 10, 22, 46. Quincy and Cairo, Illinois, became railheads in 1856, and East St. Louis, Illinois, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1857. They had closed nearly all the side channels. From St. Anthony Falls to downtown St. Paul, some 15 river miles, the river falls more than 100 feet. Together, the Grange, shippers and merchants, boosters in river towns and the Windom committee persuaded Congress to authorize the 41/2-foot channel project. 341, p. 14; Annual Report, 1879, p. 111, see figures 1, 2, and 3 and Plate 3. After the war, he settled in New York. Her father, Albert Kirchner, along with Jacob Richtman, both from Fountain City, Wisconsin, became the leading contractors for the Corps in wing dam construction. By narrowing the river and thereby increasing the main channel's velocity, the Corps hoped to scour one uninterrupted navigation channel the length of the upper river.63 Wing dams, closing dams and shore protection required two simple components: willow saplings and rock. If built, this project would allow Minneapolis to become the head of navigation. In response to their lobbying, Congress authorized four broad projects to improve navigation on the upper river and a number of site-specific projects in the Twin Cities metropolitan area since 1866. To do this, they would have to change the Mississippi's landscape and environment. 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 . . . 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. 1578-79. If lucky, they avoided hogging the boat; that is, warping or breaking its hull.24. Esther (1823-1917): m1. Echoing the beliefs of their counterparts downstream, Minneapolis boosters pointed to the divine purpose of their project. 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. Frank Haigh Dixon, A Traffic History of the Mississippi River System, National Waterways Commission, Document No. Having accomplished nothing as the deadline approached, the company spent $26,000 during late 1870 and early 1871. This map shows the completion dates at various points along the route westward from Chicago. He evidently was a cattle herder in Mississippi, with many vouchers for his work. The Harahan Bridge opened in 1916 and was used until 1949. This is a list of bridgesand other crossings of the Lower Mississippi Riverfrom the Ohio Riverdownstream to the Gulf of Mexico. Granted, Mackenzie repeatedly called for locks and dams. In newly constricted reaches, the channel might be good for a season or two and then become difficult again, due to the river's natural tendencies or as a result of the improvement works themselves. Tweet, History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, p. 22. No. Whatever products the Midwest came to manufacture, like woolen and cotton fabrics, would find their chief market in the South and Southwest. According to one historian, 'the Mississippi River gave slavery a whole new lease on life' (Johnson, 2013: 6-7, 146). Mississippi Historical Crossings Additions and/or corrections to the database are encouraged! On April 22, 1856, the citizens of Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, cheered as they watched three steam locomotives pull eight passenger cars safely across the newly completed Chicago and Rock Island railroad bridge over the Mississippi River. From this work, Warren contended that in its natural state the Mississippi River's navigation channel frequently changed and that the Corps would have to survey the river each year until they understood how it worked.29 In some reaches, Warren reported, sandbars moved in waves along the channel bottom, looking something like snowdrifts. In June and July of 1891, Mackenzie carried out even more accurate surveys of most of the river from the Minneapolis steamboat warehouse to the Short Line bridge below Meeker Island and of select areas down to the Minnesota River; see Annual Report, 1891, p. 2154. . . The Mississippi River lies entirely within the United States. 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. Those that bowed in and out of the water they labeled preachers. With Warren's arrival in St. Paul in August, the Corps established a permanent stake in how the upper Mississippi River would be managed and changed. While still in his twenties, Donnelly had become Minnesota's lieutenant governor. Mississippi was given title to more than three million acres of swamp and overflow land along its northwestern border with the Mississippi River. 65 Annual Report, 1880, p. 1495. ft. Some opponents argued that it was the federal government's responsibility to improve the river, not private interests subsidized by the government. Solon J. Buck, Granger Movement, A Study of Agricultural Organization and Its Political, Economic and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933), pp. The first ferries crossing from Piggott's complex to St. Louis were pirogues, small boats similar to canoes, made from hollowed out logs. It runs through ten states, and many people today just see the Mississippi River as a bunch of water. The best market for the Midwest's corn, flour, pork, and beef, it claimed, was the South. Download the official NPS app before your next visit. Annual Report, 1881, p. 2746. The Mississippi River, the state insisted, provided the natural link. . Harold B. Schonberger, Transportation to the Seaboard: The Communication Revolution and American Foreign Policy, 1860-1900, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971), p. 21. A wave would start at the head of the reach and begin moving down, even when the current slowed. The ferry runs right next to the Sandy Island Bald Eagle Sanctuary & Lock and Dam #25 making it an ideal spot to look for Bald Eagles in the winter. The Mississippi River Route was first explored by canoes, quickly followed by paddle boats, in a seemingly endless . 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. They needed local navigation projects, but these did little good without a navigable river downstream. Vol. George Byron Merrick captures well the perils of sailing the natural river. Walter Havighurst, Upper Mississippi, A Wilderness Saga, (New York: Farrar & Rinehart; New York: J. J. Following through on the 1894 act, Congress provided for the construction of Lock and Dam 1 in the River and Harbor Act of March 3, 1899. The most comprehensive and authoritative history site on the Internet. It served the Indians as a means of crossing long before the whites penetrated as far west as the Mississippi. 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. No. The image below shows a very well organized squall line to the west of the Mississippi River. Although New Orleans had fallen to Union troops in April 1862, the Mississippi remained closed as long as the cannons at Vicksburg, Miss., swept its waters. Pauluntil Congress did something about the rapids below St. Anthony Falls. Ahead of him lay the capital at Jackson, and then Vicksburg. A movement into central Mississippi ended when Southern cavalrymen captured the Federals supply base at Holly Springs. Popular wisdom at the beginning of the 19th century hypothesized it would take at least another 300 years, or most likely longer, to fill the area between the Mississippi and the Pacific coast. 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. They would have to focus the river's current into one main channel and block off the myriad side channels. Kane, Rivalry, p. 322, suggests that the federal government recognized its obligation for improving navigation in 1873 by authorizing $25,000 for the project. No sooner had a barge of rocks been pulled up to the dam, Hill remembered, than the symmetry of the load was destroyed as the men began the routine of sinking the mat. Lauren McCoy dove deep to explore how it was a means of freedom. 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. 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). In view of the hold which this method has taken upon the minds of river men, and the difficulties, uncertainty, and expense which attend the use of dams, Warren concluded, I have determined to recommend the employment of these dredging machines.37 In 1867 the Corps initiated a program of dredging sandbars, snagging, clearing overhanging trees and removing sunken vessels to create the 4-foot channel. 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. The seizure of the mighty stream had been a major component of Federal strategy since the wars earliest weeks. In 1867, they held, according to one historian, the most important navigation improvement convention before 1873. The Windom Committee Spurred by the Granger movement and navigation conventionspartly out of fear and partly out of a genuine concern to help farmers and businessesMinnesota Senator William Windom asked the Senate to establish a committee to examine the transportation problem and recommend solutions to it. In its petition, the state stressed that boats had frequently landed within two and one-half miles of downtown Minneapolis, up until 1857. Doc. Early railheads on the upper river's east bank fostered steamboat traffic, but they initiated its end as well. House Ex. . 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. He moved on to represent Minnesota in the U.S. House for 6 years as a Republican. Kane, Rivalry, pp. As with so many projects, the Economic Panic of 1857 and the Civil War stalled the Mississippi River Improvement and Manufacturing Company's plans, postponing the project and the intercity conflict.72, Holding to their dream through the depression and the war, Meeker and Morrison beseeched Congress for a land grant to fund their project in 1865. Playing on the desire of Minneapolis navigation boosters, they proposed building a lock and dam between the two cities to aid navigation and to secure the hydropower for themselves.71, Meeker, a territorial judge and local entrepreneur, and Morrison, a St. Anthony Falls sawmill operator, lobbied for and obtained permission from the Minnesota Territorial Legislature to build their lock and dam near Meeker Island. George Byron Merrick captures well the perils of sailing the natural river. . Grant Stevenson. 1780-81. 309-10. Allied with them were sawmill operators and boom company operators William W. Eastman, John Martin, Sumner W. Farnham, James A. Lovejoy, and Joel B. Bassett. On June 23, 1866, Congress passed the first postwar River and Harbor Act. Sherman once said, Grant is brave, honest, & true, but not a Genius.. Overcoming squabbles over Enigma, American and British forces sunk dozens of enemy subs. Without enough current, this happened too slowly for navigation. In 1855 a railroad entered Galena. AP US History (Sem 1) | Lesson 4.2 Assignment: Antebellum Reformers Project Directions: For this assignment you will choose a major reformer from the Antebellum era (1815-1861) and conduct independent research. Kelley and Grangers in the upper Mississippi River valley saw the river as an essential route to domestic and foreign markets. The Corps of Engineers was working on a project to save the falls. Old Historical Atlas Maps of Arkansas. He lists 99 boats counting for 965 arrivals in 1857 and 62 boats as accounting for the 1,090 arrivals in 1858. Reeling from Chicago's increasing dominance over the region's trade, they saw the river as their best counteroffensive. Extending navigation above St. Anthony Falls with the other two locks and dams would total $1,538,702.90. Led by Ignatius Donnelly, Grange supporters had organized the People's Anti-Monopoly party, with a platform striking at monopolies, advocating state railroad controls, and denouncing postwar corruption. . Without a lock and dam, the river above St. Paul was too narrow, too shallow, too strewn with boulders and the current too fast for steamboat navigation.34 To create a safe and continuous 4-foot channel for the river between St. Paul and the Rock Island Rapids, Warren asked for $96,000 to acquire and operate two dredge and snag boats, $5,000 to construct an experimental closing dam at Prescott Island, about 26 miles below St. Paul, and $5,000 for another experimental closing dam for the Wacouta chute near Red Wing, Minnesota.35. 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. Barns credits Kelley with founding the Grange, recognizing the role of others, particularly of Miss Carrie Hall, Kelley's niece. Between 1866 and 1869, Warren completed 30 survey maps of the upper Mississippi River, at the scale of 2 inches to the mile. American Memory Project, Library of Congress. I am very well but much perplexed, he admitted to his wife. m., over which the annual rainfall averages 34.7 in., and its discharge per second into the Lower Mississippi varies from 25,000 cub. Desiring to keep traffic flowing past their city, the citizens had attempted to close the Wisconsin channel but had been unsuccessful. Printed in the Minnesota Monthlys July edition, the convention's preamble to its resolutions declared: "The Mississippi River traverses for thousands of miles the noblest agricultural regions of the earth, running from North to South, . The Vicksburg Riverfront Murals are located on the Yazoo Diversion Canal levee wall. No. 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. Midwesterners, however, needed to transform the river, if they hoped to make it a commercial thoroughfare. U.S. Congress, House, Survey of the Upper Mississippi River, Exec. Kane jumps to the construction of Lock and Dam 2, without discussing who made the final push for the project. Sandbars determined the river's controlling depththe minimum depth for navigation at low water. But when the Father of Waters was reached, these methods were out of the question: here apparently was an insurmountable obstacle. 196-97, 199; Tweet, History of Transportation, 38-39. Lock and Dam 2 (the Meeker Island Lock and Dam) could then be placed about 2.9 miles upstream, below Meeker Island, and would have a lift of 13.8 feet. . By 1907, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hastings and other river cities, through their successful lobbying and through the Corps, had changed the upper Mississippi River dramatically. The existing Rock River bridges include three federal, one state, and one local crossings. 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. https://www.historynet.com/crossing-the-mississippi/, Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot, Turmoil in Richmond: Joe Johnston, Jefferson Davis Command Alliance Was Doomed From the Start, How Allied Forces Used Code and Hunches To Turn the Tables on German U-Boats. Penetrated as far crossing the mississippi river in 1850 as the river 's controlling depththe minimum depth navigation. Deadline approached, the Eads bridge, was the South undertaken personal reconnaissances endured! 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