Between Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Portage, Wisconsin. County/parish: Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 26, 1977. NRIS 77000030.
1 contributing structure.
The Portage Canal was built to connect the Fox River and Wisconsin River at Portage, Wisconsin along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway. For a time, it completed a route from the north Atlantic Ocean, through the St. Lawrence Seaway and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and back to the Atlantic.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106780240