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Yahara River Lock

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Description: Elevated view of the Yahara River lock.
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Lock on The Yahara River

Date: 1939
Description: Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River.
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Tenney Park Locks

Date: 1906
Description: A boat full of men and women is entering the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park.
Map or Atlas

Water Power Location in the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
Description: This map shows the dams and locks of the Fox River between Neenah, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Kaukauna, in Outagamie County. The cities and villag...
Photograph

Work on Tenney Park Lock and Dam

Date: 01 08 1959
Description: Work on the new Tenney Park lock and dam is progressing on schedule. A temporary spillway (not shown) has been built to divert the Yahara River from the co...
Photograph

Tenney Park Lock Opening

Date: 08 22 1959
Description: Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning.
Photograph

Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches

Date: 08 03 1953
Description: Boaters passing by through the Tenney Park lock in three motor boats.
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Town of the Island in the Outlet of Winabago Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, railroad depots, locks, bridges, dams, canals, U.S. light house, college grounds, a steam boat landing, and ...
Postcard

At the Fox River Lock

Date: 1905
Description: View across water towards a motor launch with striped canopy moored along the shore just above the Fox River Lock on Buffalo Lake. A finely dressed party o...
Map or Atlas

Index Map of the Fox River, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This map shows the distances along Fox River, as well as adjacent lakes and railroads, between Green Bay and the Wisconsin River. Lake Michigan is on the f...
Map or Atlas

Map of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, Showing Proposed Canals Connecting the Rivers with the Ocean

Date: 1790
Description: This map of the north eastern states shows roads, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, mountains, cities, forts, mills, the Oneida Reservation, and "New York Donatio...
Photograph

Coal Dock

Date: 08 1940
Description: Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,...
Photograph

Tenney Park Locks Activity

Date: 07 04 1954
Description: Boaters and fishermen on the Yahara River moving into Lake Mendota just after the water reached exit level at the Tenney Park lock.
Postcard

The Locks, Tenney Park and Lake Mendota

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Description: View of the locks at Tenney Park where Lake Mendota meets the Yahara River. A boat with five people is passing through the canal. Caption reads: "The Locks...

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