"The year was 1874, and the Hennepin Canal had achieved national significance and would be built as a federal waterway." Through this succinct declaration, the introduction section of Western Illinois ...

May's Friends of the Hennepin Canal "Hike the Hennepin" event will be held on May 19 at 1:30 p.m. The crew will meet at Lock 11, just north of Tiskilwa, and walk to Lock 6. The hike covers 4.6 ...

Voices of the Hennepin Canal: Promoters, Politicians, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a 428-page historical account that begins in the 1830s with the start of surveys of canal-river routes to ...

“The popularity of the Hennepin Canal State Parkway north of Geneseo has increased over the past few years, with over 1.9 million people visiting the 104.5 mile long park in 2023,” said Zack ...