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Section Including Falls & Dam in Red-River
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This map shows pictorially a section of bracketdam, section of tree dam, and crib of stone. This map was prepared by order of General Joseph Bailey and is ink on tracing cloth. An inset map shows a cross section of a cliff at Rocky Point. Also included are three columns of notes and an annotation in pencil below the title that reads: "May 1864."
1864
Trask, W. S.
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Colonel Bailey's Red River Dams, The Military Engineer Vol. 29, No. 168
1937-09 to 1937-12
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Wisconsin River improvement, upper improved section : from Portage to dam no. 8.1872, a distance of 12 miles showing dams and shore protections
November 30, 1882
This 1882 manuscript map shows the improvements to a 12-mile stretch of the Wisconsin River below Portage, in Columbia County, Wisconsin. Recent improvements are shown in red.
Wisconsin River Headwaters Reservoir System
2013
This map of the Wisconsin River watershed shows hydroelectric dams, natural-lake and man-made reservoirs, the Wisconsin River and its tributaries, and the Wisconsin River Drainage Basin. The map is...
Map of Clark County, Wisconsin
1873
This 1873 map shows Clark County, Wisconsin, as well as the portion of Taylor County that was then part of Clark. It shows the township and range grid, sections, railroads, roads, mills, post offic...
Beaver Dam, Wis.
1932
This map of Beaver Dam shows new boundary lines for wards, existing wards, roads, railroads, parks, rivers, and part of Beaver Dam Lake. There are some manuscript annotations in pencil.
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