The Meeker Island Lock and Dam (originally known as Lock and Dam No. 2) was the first lock and dam facility built on the Upper Mississippi River. Meeker Island was named after its owner Judge Bradley B. Meeker. Meeker County was named after him also. After a construction period lasting eight years, the site was only in operation for five years from 1907 to 1912 when the growing interest in hydroelectric power led to design and construction of today's Lock and Dam No. 1 a few miles downriver.[2] It was realized that the new dam could take over the function provided by this first site and another small dam a short distance downriver.
Lock and Dam No. 1 opened in 1917, and a hydroelectric plant was added there in the 1920s to power the Ford Motor Company's Twin Cities Assembly Plant. The Meeker Island dam was demolished, although some ruins of the lock remain. Tops of the old lock walls become visible during low water periods on the river. It is located in the Desnoyer Park neighborhood, north of the Lake Street-Marshall Bridge connecting Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Ruins of the Meeker Island Lock as seen from the river
^Anfinson, John O. (Summer 1995). "The secret history of the Mississippi's earliest locks and dams" (PDF). Minnesota History. 54 (6): 254–267. JSTOR 20187923.
^Nelson, Time (August 24, 2007), "RIVER HISTORY RECLAIMED - A NEW ST. PAUL PARK MAKES ACCESSIBLE THE REMAINS OF THE HISTORIC MEEKER ISLAND LOCK AND DAM." Saint Paul Pioneer Press
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