Canton Dam

HUDSON, CLARK

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 9/12/2009 at 17:17:38

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, March 25, 1886

Canton Dam

The Maquoketa River at Canton is now unusually high. On Sunday, March 14th, the ice went out of the pond without doing any damage. The mill dam is therefore all right for another season, for it is only on the occasion of the ice going out in the Spring, that the structure is in peril. However, the owner of the mill privileges, J. L. Hudson, Esq. and Mr. Alex Clark, are usually provided against such an emergency and have a supply of timber on hand ready for regular repair work. It may interest the general reader to know that the Canton dam is 208 feet long and 11 ½ feet high, and reaching across the Maquoketa River between banks of solid rock and standing in a solid rock formation, has stood almost without repairs for twenty-nine years.