Lac qui Parle flood control project files, 1922-1963.

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Lac qui Parle flood control project files, 1922-1963.

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Material related to the acquisition of certain lands, easements, and rights-of-way by the state of Minnesota, later sold or transferred to the United States, for the Lac qui Parle flood control project. Although the records date from 1922, condemnations began in 1937. These files are an amalgamation of many cases relating to claims arising from state and federal flood control projects along the Minnesota River and Big Stone Lake in Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, and Swift counties. High water studies are included.

6.8 cu. ft. (7 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...