Property Record
MAIN ST AT FOX RIVER
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Kaukauna Guard Lock |
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| Other Name: | Kaukauna Guard Lock |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 51840 |
| Location (Address): | MAIN ST AT FOX RIVER |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| City: | Kaukauna |
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| Survey Date: | 19882014 |
| Historic Use: | lock |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Kaukauna Locks Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/7/1993 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Waterway Resources of the Lower Fox River |
| Additional Information: | Photo code: FCS 4/27. Unlike the Little Chute Guard Lock which was a complete chamber later converted to guard lock duty, this local was designed as a guard lock. As such, it is found at the upriver end of the Kaukauna Canal (oriented on a WNW/ESE axis) and consists only of two quarried limestone abutments and two miter gates. The gates are constructed of squared wooden timbers that are laid horizontally atop one another and joined with structural ties. They are believed to be operated with the same crank and spar syste, used on all the locks in the system. The lock is thought to have butterfly valves either built into the floor under the gates or in the gates themselves. Although a guard lock is designed to protect a lock or canal from a surge of water, they are also used to close a canal off at winter time, thus facilitating the canal's drainage. Gate valves in a guard lock, therefore, are necessary to reflood the canal in the spring. In this particular case, however, the Guard Lock has fallen into disuse and is not even thought to be operable. Kaukauna Lock #1 is now the point at which the canal is closed off. |
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| Bibliographic References: | "Supplemental/Addendum Information to FCC Package, Kaukauna Tower, East 9th Street and Boyd Avenue, Kaukauna, WI 54130." WHS Project #14-0410/OU June 2014. Prepared by Lena Hoffmeyer. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |