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Part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway: five locks with hand-operated wooden gates, a guard lock, a dam, canal, boathouse, drydock, lock-keeper's house, and various sheds. [51] All help vessels around a 50-foot rapids in the Fox River. Constructed in the 1850s by private companies. Largely rebuilt in the 1880s by the Army Corps of Engineers. [52] 26
Major highway routes in the area include: Interstate 41/U.S. Route 41, which connects the Fox Cities with Green Bay and Milwaukee; Wisconsin Highway 441, known locally as the Tri-County Expressway, which is an auxiliary highway of Interstate 41 that serves as a beltway around Appleton; and U.S. Route 10 which travels east–west, connecting the ...
The district includes three locks on the Lower Fox River: Appleton Lock 1 in the Lower Fox River Valley, west of Oneida Street in the City of Appleton, at the river's 31.7 mile marker, Lock 2 at the 31.5 mile marker in Appleton, Lock 3 at the 31.3 mile marker in Appleton.
It is the principal city of the Appleton metropolitan statistical area, which had 243,147 residents in 2020 and is included in the greater Fox Cities region of Wisconsin. Appleton serves as the heart of the Fox River Valley, which is home to Lawrence University, the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Fox River Mall ...
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Irish Fest of the Fox Cities will take place Sept. 13 and 14 in Appleton's Jones Park, 301 W. Lawrence St. The fourth annual event will honor the legacy of executive director and founder, Matt Miller.
Fox Cities Quilt Co. Fox Cities Quilt Co., 1400 W. College Ave., in Appleton, specializes and caters to all things quilting. The shop features high quality fabric, project patterns, kits and ...
The Fox River Paper Company Historic District, now known as the Historic Fox River Mills, is a complex of paper mill buildings in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, built from 1883 to 1915. [2] The historic district includes the Romanesque-styled Ravine/Rag Mills, [ 3 ] the Italianate-styled Lincoln Mill which originally milled flour, [ 4 ...