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The Big Bend is a large meander of the Missouri River in South Dakota, now impounded by the Big Bend Dam, 7 miles (11 km) to its south, as part of Lake Sharpe. The meander is about 22 miles (35 km) long and at its narrowest, its neck is about 3,440 feet (1.05 km) wide.
Big Bend Dam is a major embankment rolled-earth dam on the Missouri River in Central South Dakota, United States, creating Lake Sharpe. The dam was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan for Missouri watershed development authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944. Construction began in 1959 and the ...
The main path of I-90 crosses the lake on a modern bridge 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Chamberlain Bridge and a railroad bridge crosses about 300 yards (270 m) south of I-90. Chamberlain Bridge is designated South Dakota Department of Transportation bridge no. 08-068-084 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
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The Lewis and Clark Memorial Bridge in the US state of South Dakota is a bridge that carries Interstate 90 (I-90) across the Missouri River and Lake Francis Case between Chamberlain on the east bank and Oacoma on the west bank of the river. Construction on the bridge began in 1967 and cost $8 million.
Fort Pierre Chouteau, also just Fort Pierre, was a major trading post and military outpost in the mid-19th century on the west bank of the Missouri River in what is now central South Dakota. Established in 1832 by Pierre Chouteau, Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri, whose family were major fur traders, this facility operated through the 1850s.
Several water-control measures were introduced through the Pick–Sloan legislation that variously affected the Missouri River Valley and its environs. The Pick–Sloan program dams built between 1946 and 1966 are: Canyon Ferry Dam and Lake in Montana; Garrison Dam and Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota; Oahe Dam and Lake Oahe in South Dakota
The Arzberger site is located on a terrace overlooking the east bank of the Missouri River, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Pierre.The site is that of a fortified village, which originally had a wooden stockade encircling an area of about 44 acres (18 ha).