Subject correspondence files, 1885-1907; 1911-1912; 1914; 1935-1955; 1960-1977.

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Subject correspondence files, 1885-1907; 1911-1912; 1914; 1935-1955; 1960-1977.

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Files include incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with landowners, attorneys, construction and utility companies, Secretary of War, hunting associations and local, state and federal elected officials. Subjects include land acquisition; canal route; land surveys; specifications for bridges, locks, dams, gates, valvees and aqueducts; use of steamboats on canal; cost estimates; appropriations; property leases; feeder extensions; railroad and highway bridges; flooding; trespassers; inspections; telephone lines; hunting refuges; drainage problems on adjacent private properties; dredging; reservoirs; game warden authority; canal lands for grazing purposes; bathing beaches; repairs; and transfer of canal. Occasionally included are maps, blueprints, construction specifications, photographs, newspaper articles, memoranda and draft agreement between federal government and State of Illinois for repair, modification and transfer of canal for recreation purposes.

correspondence 8 cubic ft.

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...