Showing posts with label canalHennepin. Show all posts
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Friday, May 22, 2026

Hennepin Canal Aqueduct #5 over Mud Creek near Annawan, IL

(Satellite)


Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday is a double-wide photo that features the construction of Aqueduct 5 at Mud Creek near Annawan.
Connie N Charles Baele: What year is a this?
Hennepin Canal State Park: Connie N Charles Baele the year was not listed, but canal construction took place from 1892 to 1907.

As viewed from I-80.
Street View, Aug 2025

Satellite

Friday, April 24, 2026

Hennepin Canal Lock #15

(Satellite)


Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday photo shows lock tenders and their families at Lock 15 (located between Wyanet and Tiskilwa)  in the early 1900s.

Jacek O, Oct 2021

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Hennepin Canal Lock #29

(Satellite)


Raw Images Art & Photography posted 24 photos with the comment: "Ran out to Colona IL to see the Rock River and the Hennepin Canal. Water is up. Fishermen and the turtles were out enjoying some sunshine."
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The lock connects the canal to the Rock River.

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Monday, March 23, 2026

Hennepin Canal Bridge #4 east of Tiskilwa, IL

(Satellite)

Hennepin Canal Overview

Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday picture was taken in 1970 and features Bridge #4, east of Tiskilwa.

It has been replaced with an embankment and culverts.
Street View, Aug 2023

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Hennepin Canal Aqueduct #7 and Lock #25 west of Geneseo, IL

Aqueduct: (Bridge HunterSatellite)
Lock: (Satellite)


Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday photo features the Mixing and Hoisting Plant at Lock 25, west of Geneseo.

This is how I found the lock. It is further away from IL-82 than other maps implied.
1934/34 Geneseo Quad @ 62,500

The aqueduct is intact.
Satellite

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Hennepin Canal Lock #10 near Tiskilwa, IL

(Satellite)


The lock is not labeled in Google Maps, but this one is between #9 and #11.

Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday shows a newly constructed Lock 10 near Tiskilwa. Taken in 1898.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Hennepin Canal Aqueduct #3 over West Bureau Creek east of Wyanet, IL

(Satellite)

Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday photo was taken in 1898 and features the construction of Aqueduct 3, East of Wyanet.

Cub Cadet Hoard, Jan 2024

Jacek O, Jul 2025

This shows that the aqueduct is "wet."
Jacek O, Jul 2025

Taking another look at a satellite image, one can see that it is wet.
Satellite



Saturday, November 15, 2025

Hennepin Canal Lock #5

(Satellite)

Hennepin Canal Overview

Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday picture was taken at Lock 5 looking eastward. Not sure of the date, but Goin' Fishin' on the Canal is timeless.

Gary Grice, Jun 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

1800's, and newer, Canals Overview


Metrotrails posted
A good overview of the historic canals of the northeastern United States. 
As a group we have traced all of the Morris Canal, Delaware and Raritan Canal, Union Canal, Schuylkill Navigation, Lehigh Canal, Delaware Canal, and Delaware and Hudson Canal.
We have traced sections of the Pennsylvania Canal (all of Susquehanna Division, Juniata Division, and Allegheny Portage Railroad), parts of Western Division, North Branch Canal, Susquehanna and Tidewater, Erie, Champlain, Blackstone, New Haven & Northampton, and more than half of Chesapeake and Ohio. 
Each has been amazing.
Vince Gargiulo: So out of the group how many used inclined planes?
Metrotrails: Vince Gargiulo Morris Canal had 23, 24 if you count the electric one. I understand there was one connected to the Potomac. Other than that no inclined planes on the canals themselves. The early connection railways had them, but it wasn't the same. The most were on Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad. Second most on Pennsylvania Coal Company Gravity Railroad. Allegheny Portage Railroad had 10, Philadelphia and Columbia had 2. Lehigh and Susquehanna had 3. Mauch Chunk had 2 main, several connecting. Many early anthracite lines had them.

Comments on the above post

Comments on the above post

This is why the Erie Canal sparked such a canal building frenzy in the Midwest before the railroads made them obsolete.
Unify posted
"Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention."
— Paulo Coelho
Paul Petraitis shared

The blue lines indicated rivers that were navigable by riverboats.
24:29 video @ 6:28
The 19th Century Retailer - The Lost, and Found Riverboat Arabia

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Hennepin Canal Lock #12 and Aqueduct #2 over Big Bureau Creek

Lock: (Satellite)
Aqueduct: (Satellite, gone)


Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Today's Throwback Thursday picture features Aqueduct #2 at Lock 12, looking East. The photo was taken in 1970.

David Nowakowski, Aug 2020

I could not convince Google Maps to give me the name of the creek. But a topo map has it labelled.
1983/84 Wyanet Quad @ 24,000