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Lock and Dam construction. Osage River, Missouri

Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of EngineersSeries: Kansas City District: Photographs

Views of cofferdam, where new Chanoine Dam is under construction.  The photograph shows a largely wooden dam under construction in the middle of a river.

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I’m wishing everyone so much warmth and rest on this winter solstice. t m c 

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junction of the Sac and Osage rivers in Missouri

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Arcadian Tourism

Two girls from Iowa on vacation at Lake Taneycomo, 1920s. Lake Taneycomo is a 22-mile riverine lake stringing upstream on the White River through Taney County from Powersite Dam to Branson and, today, to Table Rock Dam. Powersite Dam, near Forsyth, closed in 1913. At that time, it was the largest dam/reservoir in the country and provided power and light to this remote corner of Missouri. We used…

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Origin of Ha Ha Tonka Mythos

Origin of Ha Ha Tonka Mythos

In Damming the Osage, we wrote about the connection between Col. R. G. Scott and Robert M. Snyder, who built Ha Ha Tonka. Colonel R. G. Scott came from Iowa to the Ozarks around 1890 where he futilely attempted to promote a railroad linking Jefferson City and Springfield. He and a friend, Major R. D. Kelly, bought or optioned a large parcel of land around Gunter Spring from Jack Roach. His son,…

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Joseph W. McClurg, 19th Governor of Missouri

Joseph W. McClurg, 19th Governor of Missouri

Joseph McClurg was governor of Missouri from January 12, 1869 to January 4, 1871.       Joseph W. McClurg and partners grossed half-a-million dollars a year at their Linn Creek Big Store before the Civil War. The well-educated, dapper gentleman was a strong Union supporter. When hostilities erupted, rebels burned his store and warehouses. After the War, McClurg was elected to Congress three times…

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Steamboat J. R. Wells on the Osage

Steamboat J. R. Wells on the Osage

Steamboat J. R. Wells at Linn Creek, late 1800s A few steamboats still operated on the lower Osage River in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Sometimes they carried excursion parties instead of cargo. Before the Civil War, “daring, reckless and adventurous men” ran far upstream in high water to sup­ply frontier settlements with necessities, returning to St. Louis with barrels of…

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Harmony Mission Day 2021 - June 12 - Papinville, Missouri

Harmony Mission Day 2021 – June 12 – Papinville, Missouri

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