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The Hennepin Canal State Trail, also just called the Hennepin Canal, is an abandoned waterway in northwest Illinois, between the Mississippi River at Rock Island and the Illinois River near Hennepin. The entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Opened in 1907, the canal was soon abandoned because of railroad competition.
Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Watersheds of Illinois This page was last edited on 20 January 2025, at 05:42 (UTC). Text is ...
Location of Bureau County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bureau County, Illinois.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
The Hennepin Canal roughly follows the ancient channel of the Mississippi upstream of Rock Island. The modern channel of the Illinois River was shaped in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent . During the melting of the Wisconsin Glacier about 10,000 years ago, a lake formed in present-day Indiana, comparable to one of the modern Great Lakes .
Father Louis Hennepin (1626–1706), Belgian/French explorer of North America; SS Hennepin, a shipwreck off the coast of Lake Michigan near South Haven, Michigan, United States; USS Hennepin (1943–1946), US Navy cargo ship; Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, former site of the Hennepin Canal
Continued into Connecticut as the Farmington Canal: Hennepin Canal: IL: 1907 75.2 mi (121.0 km) Hocking Canal: OH: 1841 1890 56 mi (90 km) Illinois and Michigan Canal: IL: 1848 1933 96 mi (154 km) Indiana Central Canal: IN: 8 mi (13 km) Partially completed James River and Kanawha Canal: VA: Only Virginia portion completed Junction Canal: PA ...
The best long-section of the GIT is the southern section along the state canal trails, between Joliet and the Quad Cities. This southern section includes the Old Plank Road Trail, the Illinois and Michigan Canal Trail, the projected Kaskaskia Alliance Trail and the Hennepin Canal, and is the northern routing of the cross-country American ...
The year 1907 brought the completion of the Hennepin Canal to the north of Mineral. The canal's practical use was outdated by its completion due to the vast developments in the train industry. The Hennepin Canal continues to function as a fishing and boating area. In 1919, the Mineral School building was destroyed by fire.