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In 1880, the L.W. Crane caught fire and sank to the bottom of the river. That's what the research team thinks it saw during ...
"Sometimes we find something new that we were not looking for," the Wisconsin Historical Society said about the discovery.
Aurora will likely stay part of a study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looking at the impact of removing the city’s two ...
Researchers surveying a Wisconsin river unexpectedly uncovered a 145-year-old shipwreck, according to officials.
The scan revealed a partially buried ship's hull about 90 feet long and 23 feet wide. The wreck is likely that of the L.W.
How would St. Charles change if its dam, located just north of the Main Street bridge, were removed? This is the question that has been hotly debated since the fall of 2023, when the U.S. Army Corps ...
It started as a creek at Elmore Street in the city's 1889 plat map, widened at what's now Shawano Avenue, oxbow-curved through what became Seymour Park, and emptied into the Fox River with a mouth ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it wants to do more research before it proceeds with its recommendation that nine dams on the Fox River, including those in Elgin and South Elgin, be removed.