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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 County (/ ˈ h ɛ n ə p ɪ n / HEN-ə-pin) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Its county seat is Minneapolis , [ 2 ] the state's most populous city. [ 3 ] The county is named for the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin . [ 4 ]
Starved Rock State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by the many canyons within its 2,630 acres (1,064 ha).Located just southeast of the village of Utica, in Deer Park Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, along the south bank of the Illinois River, the park hosts over two million visitors annually, the most for any Illinois state park.
Maid of the Canyon: W.R. Hawkins "Billy Hawkins, the cook, was a soldier in the Union Army during the war, and when discharged at its close went West, and since then has been engaged as teamster on the plains or hunter in the mountains. He is an athlete and a jovial good fellow, who hardly seems to know his own strength." Andrew Hall
Little Grand Canyon: 1980: Jackson: Federal A large box canyon with vertical overhanging walls, containing a wide range of ecosystems, including sandstone, oak-hickory forest and prairie. The area is known for its wide range of snakes that hibernate in its seasonal habitats.
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
Hennepin County: 053: Minneapolis: 1852: Dakota County: Father Louis Hennepin (1626–1705), early explorer of the Twin Cities area in the 17th century 1,258,713: 556.62 sq mi (1,442 km 2) Houston County: 055: Caledonia: 1854: Fillmore County: Sam Houston (1793–1863), the second and fourth president of the Republic of Texas and seventh ...
The Hennepin Avenue Bridge [a] was a bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Hennepin Avenue from the Minneapolis Bank to Nicollet Island. Built and completed in ...