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	Hennepin Canal Paddling/Fishing Page
		Hennepin was mercilessly tormented by one of the Indians (who was later admonished for his actions by a Sioux Chief) for the winter.
		Hennepin and his companions were marched on a hunting expedition and thus became the first Europeans to see the Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi near Minneapolis.
		The canal is mainly a perched or diked canal, with embankments on each side and a clay liner to hold the water in.
	pages.ripco.net /~jwn/hennepin.html (1560 words)

	Home Page
		The Hennepin Canal Parkway is a 104.5 mile long State Park spanning five Illinois Counties which include Bureau, Henry, Lee, Rock Island, and Whiteside.
		The Hennepin Canal is also steeped in history and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
		The qualifications for membership in the Friends of the Hennepin Canal is an interest in meeting the purpose of the organization and to fill out the membership application.
	fhcanal.home.mchsi.com (177 words)

	DNR
		As this canal was under construction, the Corps of Engineers was widening the locks on both the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.
		With lock chambers twenty and forty feet narrower than the rivers it connected, the canal was obsolete before the Marion made her initial voyage.
		The Hennepin Canal Parkway basically parallels I-80 in Bureau and Henry counties in west central Illinois.
	dnr.state.il.us /lands/Landmgt/PARKS/R1/HENNPIN.HTM (1958 words)

	Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, an Illinois State Park near Kewanee, Princeton
		The Hennepin Canal, which at one time was known as the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, was open to boat traffic until 1951.
		Ice made from the canal's frozen waters was sold during the winters to help pay the canal's maintenance costs.
		Although the Hennepin enjoyed limited success as a waterway, engineering innovations used in its construction were a bonus to the construction industry.
	www.stateparks.com /hennepin_canal_parkway.html (1509 words)

	Outdated Hennepin a great escape -- From Progress '98 January 26, 1998
		The Hennepin Canal is the place to go for those who want to get away but don't want to leave the Quad-Cities.
		The canal and banks are state-owned, and for 150 feet on each side, visitors will see only trees and fields, making it an excellent area to view native wildlife, according to Mr.
		Built in the 1890's, the Hennepin Canal was used as a passageway for coal from Spring Valley and salt from Chicago, but by the 1930s, it was used primarily for recreational traffic.
	www.qconline.com /progress98/places/prhenpen.html (1025 words)

	RG 497.000 - Illinois and Mississippi (Hennepin) Canal
		This canal connected the Illinois River just south of Hennepin in Putnam County to the Rock River near Moline in Rock Island County and from there by way of a canal around the Rock River's lower rapids at Milan to the Mississippi River at the city of Rock Island.
		Easement access to canal lands was granted by the War Department to utility companies, townships, drainage districts, railroads, counties, and the Illinois Department of Conservation for the purposes of constructing public roads, spanning railroads, and installing pipe and utility lines.
		Studies concern a descriptive and historical sketch of the canal (1908), the feasibility of deepening the navigable canal depth to nine feet (1937), and either abandoning the canal or transferring it over to the State of Illinois for recreational purposes (1947-1960).
	www.cyberdriveillinois.com /departments/archives/di/497__002.htm (3040 words)

	Summer
		Canal voted to have a bench made to enjoy the canal.
		There are two water filled portable dams spanning the Canal at the aqueduct that are allowing work crews down on the aqueduct floor proper to repair joints and wingwalls.
		She refused to drink the canal water and had to be carried for part of the way (quite unlike Joanne’s Spook).
	fhcanal.home.mchsi.com /summer.htm (4092 words)

	Chicago Athlete -- Regional News Article
		The new 12.1-mile segment is the last of a series of five bike trail construction projects that now connect, via the canal's tow path, communities including Bureau Junction near the Illinois River, Colona near the Mississippi River, Rock Falls on the Rock River and Sheffield near canal's Summit Pool.
		The Hennepin trail system now includes 93 miles of surfaced trail for bicycles, 73 miles of equestrian trails, 172 miles of hiking trails, and 90 miles of snowmobile trails.
		The main stem of the Hennepin Canal Parkway State Trail is part of the 500-mile Grand Illinois Trail and forms a segment of the northern Illinois route of the 6,800- mile coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail.
	www.chicagoaa.com /news/hennepintrailJan04.html (277 words)

	Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hennepin Canal State Trail is a 104-mile linear park that spans across five counties in Illinois.
		The canal was completed in 1907 and built with the purpose of connecting the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers for commercial shipping routes.
		Fishing is good in the canal and includes healthy populations of bass, bluegill, crappie, and walleye.
	www.quincynet.com /illinoisparks/HennepinCanal.htm (174 words)

	Day 37
		The Hennepin canal was unusual in that it was completed around the turn of the century, quite late by canal standards.
		The canal was soon under threat from railways which offered faster travel so it soon became relegated to carrying bulk commodities but it found a new role in carrying the sanitary waste from Chicago.
		The canal operated in a similar manner to the canals in the U.K. I had been on, although they used mules to pull the boats instead of horses.
	www.lpcb.org /transam/Week6/day37.htm (2252 words)

	Illinois Index of Hotels Near I-80 Exits
		Hennepin Canal - Illinois, particularly Chicago, needed an economical means of transporting large quantities of goods between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
		This, the Hennepin Canal, wound up being "a dollar short and a day late' because by the time it was ready - after nearly 80 years of talking about it, the railroads were fully entrenched and were carrying goods for less than the costs by barge.
		Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park has been created on the north bank of the Hennepin Canal just north of Sheffield to accommodate a wide range of recreational activities - from biking and boating to winter sports; yes, it is a four-season facility.
	www.hotels-near-i-80.com /il_interstate_80_index.htm (1258 words)

	Midwest Bass Fishin' and Huntin' Adventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hennepin Canal, Illinois- Near Princeton, IL This is one of Steve's favorite places to fish for bass close to home.
		There are many activities at the Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park including biking, hiking, horse trails, canoeing, and of course fishing.
		The Hennepin Canal is a shallow water fisherman's dream come true.
	www.midwestbassfishin.com /guide_trips.php (356 words)

	RoadSites.org - Hennepin Canal
		The Hennepin Canal connects the Illinois River at Hennepin, Illinois to the Mississippi River at Rock Island.
		On March 11, 2004, I took a roadtrip along the canal.
		Description: Mississippi River terminus of the Hennepin Canal in Rock Island, Illinois.
	www.roadsites.org /images/hennepin (149 words)

	The Whiteside County Water Trail does not officially exist
		To The Actual Hennepin Canal, If you go East on the Actual Hennepin Canal about 4 miles from where the feeder canal ends, you will come to the boat ramp at Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park near Sheffield IL.
		The Canal doesn't have much of a current making for good "two-way" tripping.
		Hennepin feeder canal Whiteside County Lake Carlton Hennepin feeder canal Whiteside County Lake Carlton Hennepin feeder canal Whiteside County Lake Carlton Hennepin feeder canal Whiteside County Lake Carlton Hennepin feeder canal Whiteside County Lake Carlton Hennepin feeder canal Whiteside County
	www.lyndonprophetstowncanoerace.com /whiteside_county_water_trail.htm (720 words)

	Illinois
		The role of Irish immigrants in the construction of the canal and settlement of Illinois
		Early history of Chicago and the role of the canal in its growth.
		Discovery in 1996 of sunken canal boats at Morris Wide Water, a tuning basin in the southwest Chicago suburbs.
	members.aol.com /user606258/19thcentuscanals-illinois-b.htm (778 words)

	American Hiking Society: News and Resources: Hiker's Journal: 3/5
		This canal was built during the 1840's at the height of the canal building era.
		This canal, originally known as the Illinois and Mississippi was, as its name suggests, built to link the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.
		Concrete was invented around 1905, and this canal was one of the first public works in the world to use it.
	www.americanhiking.org /news/journal/hj3_5.html (870 words)

	Illinois State Historical Markers: Illinois and Mississippi Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Construction on the 'Hennepin Canal,' as it was commonly known, began in 1892 and was completed in 1907 at a cost of more than seven million dollars.
		A feeder canal from the Rock River at Rock Falls joined the main canal 29 miles to the south near Mineral.
		Utilization of the Hennepin Canal never reached expected proportions because of rapid technological advances in other modes of transportation, and in 1951 it was closed to traffic.
	www.historyillinois.org /frames/markers/152.htm (106 words)

	Hennepin Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Hennepin Canal Feeder runs roughly 30 miles from the Rock Falls, IL dam to the Hennepin Canal near Sheffield.
		Roughly half of the trail is crushed limestone with the rest being grass.
		The actual Hennepin Canal (formerly the IandM canal), runs from the Illinois River near Bureau (SE of Princeton) to the Mississppi River in the Quad Cities.
	www.essex1.com /people/sshumard/hennepin.htm (295 words)

	Plan Your Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The IandM Canal Lock 14, in LaSalle, IL, is the only one of the 15 original locks installed to maneuver boat traffic up and down the 140-foot elevational grade between Chicago and LaSalle-Peru that still survives.
		The Hennepin Canal was originally conceived in 1890 as part of an overall plan to connect the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico in order to facilitate barge shipping.
		The problem was that by the time the canal was finished 17 years later, a combination of decreasing railway shipping rates and increasing barge sizes had already rendered the narrow canal obsolete, particularly for commercial purposes.
	www.byways.org /plan/itinerary/61253/?from_byway_id=58611 (4325 words)

	Grand Illinois Trail :: Day Five
		I headed down IL 29 to Bureau, where bridge repairs were being done over the Hennepin Canal (the canal was dry, but a lock was visible to the west) and Bureau Creek.
		I was excited to see that the Hennepin's locks were in much better condition than those of the I & M Canal.
		The Hennepin was used less and retired more recently, meaning that the parts weren't as worn and were maintained later.
	www.djwriter.com /cycling/git/day5.html (1861 words)

	American Discovery Trail: Illinois
		The 104-mile Hennepin Canal was hand-dug from 1890 to 1907 to connect the Illinois River to the Upper Mississippi River Valley and was in operation until 1951.
		Operated as a state park, the Hennepin Canal passes through Tiskilwa, Wyanet, Sheffield, Mineral, Annawan, Atkinson, and north of Geneseo to Green Rock.
		There are 32 locks on the Hennepin Canal that raise or lower the water level a total of 289 feet.
	www.discoverytrail.org /states/illinois/iln_points3.html (366 words)

	RG 494.000 - Board of Commissioners to Settle Claims of Contractors on the Illinois and Michigan Canal
		The Board of Commissioners to Settle Claims of Contractors on the Illinois and Michigan Canal was established by the General Assembly under an act of February 14, 1855 (L. 1855, p.
		The board, composed of three Supreme Court justices, was empowered to review claims submitted by canal contractors who had subscribed to the Thornton Loan or who held state bonds, scrip, or other certificates of canal indebtedness.
		Record is of proceedings of the board in reviewing claims made by contractors working on Illinois and Michigan Canal and in some cases includes verbatim transcripts of hearings.
	www.cyberdriveillinois.com /departments/archives/di/494__002.htm (273 words)

	Festivals 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Join in the challenge to hike the canal in segments.
		February's leg is 4.6 miles from the Mississippi River to Lock 30 (Steel Dam) in Milan.
		Join the Interpreter for a walk along the canal in celebration on the winter solstice.
	www.ltconsulting.com /bureauco/bcfest.htm (514 words)

	Hennepin Canal Trail
		Lock #3 near the eastern end of the canal showing Illinois Route 29 bridge and the access parking lot.
		Iowa Interstate Railroad locomotive on the tracks next to the Hennepin Canal just west of Bureau Junction.
		Canal and tow paths duck under the railroad bridge east of Illinois Route 29.
	oprt.org /maps/hennepin (140 words)

	Hennepin Canal, IL, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		main canal - east to west spans Bureau, Henry, and Rock Island Counties.
		In Rock Island County, the canal follows the same channel as the Rock River.
		Hennepin Feeder Canal runs south from the Rock River in Whiteside County to the main canal in Bureau County.
	www.outfitters.com /illinois/bureau/canal.html (183 words)

	Henry County Tourism Bureau - Natural & Scenic Attractions in Annawan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Hennepin Canal is listed in the National Register of Historic Places joins the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
		The engineering innovations used in its construction were also used to build the Panama Canal.
		There are 32 of the original 33 locks still visible on the canal.
	www.visithenrycounty.com /town2.php?id=3 (188 words)

	Illinois Tour - GIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There were stairs to climb at the trail end; it was not an easy task to haul my bike up the stairs with all that gear.
		Apparently unlike the I and M canal trail which has quite a few trailside camp-areas, camping is not allowed anywhere along this trail.
		Rode along the Hennepin canal towpath west for a few miles until the trail went into an area that was under construction, It was rough going through tall grass and areas of rutted dirt.
	home.earthlink.net /~mapdigitizing/illinois.htm (1246 words)

	Geneseo Campground Home
		We are 4 miles north of Interstate 80 at Exit 19 next to the historic Hennepin Canal"
		The cabins are air conditioned for summertime comfort and sleep up to 4 people.
		Directly adjacent to the campground is the Hennepin Canal Trail.
	www.campingfriend.com /GeneseoCampground/default.asp (120 words)

	Hennepin Canal Trail
		Lock #3 near the eastern end of the canal showing Illinois Route 29 bridge and the access parking lot.
		Iowa Interstate Railroad locomotive on the tracks next to the Hennepin Canal just west of Bureau Junction.
		Canal and tow paths duck under the railroad bridge east of Illinois Route 29.
	www.oprt.org /maps/hennepin/index.htm (140 words)

	The Grand Illinois Bicycle Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Additional partnerships exist with the Illinois Departments of Commerce and Community Affairs and Transportation, the Illinois Historic Presentation Agency, the Illinois Chapter of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, the League of Illinois Bicyclists, Illinois Trail Riders and the Illinois Association of Park Districts.
		IandM Canal Trail 55 miles of limestone trail between I-55 at Channahan to Lock 14 at LaSalle.
		Hennepin Canal 17 miles of limestone trail along the feeder canal between Rock Falls and Illinois Route 92.
	www.ipp.org /g-i-t.html (442 words)

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