fallow - a historic place that once served as an Army home for Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Jefferson Davis. The old garrison, carved from the wilderness 150 years ago, is Jefferson Barracks - (cut off) - July 8, 1826, when 1,700 acres of frontier land were ceded to the government by the town of Vide Poche, later to be called Carondelet, for the site of the post."
This collection consists of a group of photographs documenting the construction and eventual built environment of the Granite City Engineers' Depot, in Granite City, Illinois. Photographs include images of buildings, river engineering, road and wharf construction, and some high water pictures.
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting to the House of Representatives the Report of the Board of Engineers on Security of the Navigation of the Mississippi River., Other titles:
Navigation of the Mississippi River.
Pamphlets on the Mississippi River.
In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps.