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Army Corps of Engineers
Springfield “a Gem of a City”
John T. Woodruff and the Chamber of Commerce had encouraged private companies in the 1920s and ’30s to harness the…
1940s View from Table Rock – still no dam
Into the 1940s, visitors continued to visit and pose for photographs on the flat rock above the White River valley…
Lock & Dam No. 1 on the Lower Osage
In 1886, an Osage River Improvement Committee convened and, using Army Engineers plans, challenged Congress to make the river navigable…
Progress comes to the Ozarks with the building of Powersite Dam
Powersite Dam, originally called White River Dam, was built by the Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company of Boston. It is a…
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