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Before 1931, when the Bagnell Dam was built on the Osage River to create what was then the largest man-made lake in the United States, people lived off the land on farms in a mostly cashless...
Prior to the construction of the Bagnell Dam, the main method of crossing the river was the Bagnell Ferry, which began operation in 1882, speared by Samuel Umpsted as the contractor. Several ferry accidents, including sinking, resulted in the deaths of several customers.
The first dam was completed in 1891, the last in 1966. The hemming in of the channel with levees deepens it for river commerce, and reserves the sandy soil of the bottomlands for agriculture. (Notice the old riverbank at extreme right.
Designed by Hiram Chittenden, built by Army Corps of Engineers. • 1906 Bates County Ditch, an ill-conceived channelization of the Marais des Cygnes • Late 1920s – run-of-the-river hydroelectric dam at Osceola built by Ozark Utility Company • 1931 Bagnell Dam closed.
Three things-one natural and two manmade-played key roles in the rise of Bagnell: The Osage River, the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Bagnell Dam. The Osage made Bagnell a river port and tie center; the railroad fostered its birth, and the dam brought it to its zenith.
The Bagnell Dam holds back water from the Osage River, to create the Lake of the Ozarks. The stored water serves as fuel for the Osage Energy Center, that produces more than 500 million kilowatt hours of electricity.
The river is 500 miles (800 km) long and drains 15,300 square miles (39,600 square km). Along the middle of its course the Osage River is dammed by Bagnell Dam, which thereby impounds the Lake of the Ozarks. The dam was built in 1931 to produce electricity for St. Louis.
The Osage River was impounded and the lake began to fill on February 2, 1931. The lake was open to travel May 30, 1931. Backwaters extended up the Niangua, Grand Glaize, Grand and Pomme de Terre rivers.
After just two years of construction, the Bagnell Dam was completed in 1931. It corralled the waters of the Osage River and created Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks.
Bagnell Dam (informally, the Osage Dam [6]) impounds the Osage River in the U.S. state of Missouri, creating the Lake of the Ozarks. The dam is located in the city of Lakeside in Miller County, near the Camden-Miller County line.