NRHP: Captain Meriwether Lewis Dredge
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Captain Meriwether Lewis Dredge
NRHP Reference #: 77000833
NRHP Listing Date: 19771028
Location
SE of Brownville, Brownville vicinity, Nemaha County, Nebraska
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Summary
Constructed in 1932 by the Marietta Manufacturing Company of West Virginia, the sidewheel steam dredge was built for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a cost of $523,898. The Lewis is a thirty-four-inch dustpan dredge, so named because of the dustpan-shaped section at the bow, which is lowered to dredge the river bottom. The Captain Meriwether Lewis did dredging work on the Missouri River for navigation and flood control improvements by the federal government. The dredge is now located in Brownville.
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