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August 26, 1977. The Portage Canal was built to connect the Fox River and Wisconsin River at Portage, Wisconsin along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway. [2] For a time, it completed a route from the north Atlantic Ocean, through the St. Lawrence Seaway and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and back to the Atlantic.
The western end of the Portage Canal is visible at the upper right in the picture. The Fox–Wisconsin Waterway is a waterway formed by the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. First used by European settlers in 1673 during the expedition of Marquette & Joliet, it was one of the principal routes used by travelers between the Great Lakes and the ...
Portage, Wisconsin. Portage is a city in and the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. [6] The population was 10,581 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the largest city in Columbia County. The city is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. Portage was named for the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a portage between the Fox ...
It flows west by southwest towards Portage and comes within 2 miles (3 km) of the Wisconsin River before turning north. However, the Fox River and the Wisconsin River are connected via the Portage Canal, which was the first waterway between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
The district includes several commercial structures in the low-lying area along the Portage Canal. Among them are the 1862 Wentworth Grain Elevator, [4] the 1881 Portage Hosiery complex, [5] the 1891 Portage Iron Works, [6] the 1916 T.H. Cochrane Company Warehouse, [7] and the 1920 Hyland Garage.
14000426 [4] Added to NRHP. July 18, 2014. The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light, also known as the Portage Entry Light, is a lighthouse located at the south end of breakwater at mouth of the Portage River in Torch Lake Township. [5] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The site is a two-mile crossing from the upper Fox river to the Wisconsin and Mississippi, used by Native Americans, French fur traders, Marquette and Jolliet, and British soldiers, before there were roads or railroads through Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [3]
The Kaukauna Locks Historic District is a lock and dam system in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, United States, that carried boat traffic around a rapids of the Fox River starting in the 1850s as part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its significance in engineering and transport. [1][2]