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It replaced a 438-foot lock built with the dam in 1910. Prior to the construction of the dam across the Mississippi River, the first and largest of its kind when erected, Keokuk was the shipping headquarters of the river.
The village became known as Keokuk shortly after the Blackhawk War in 1832. Why residents named it after the Sauk chief is unknown. Keokuk was incorporated on December 13, 1847. Soon after, Captain W. Clark would be elected as the first mayor. On December 14, 1848, Keokuk was incorporated as a city by the 2nd General Assembly of the State of Iowa.
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Keokuk, city, Lee county, extreme southeastern Iowa, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (bridged to Hamilton, Illinois) at the mouth of the Des Moines River, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Burlington. The first settler in the area, Samuel C. Muir, arrived in 1820, and a trading post was.
May/June 2022. (Volume 14, Issue 3) By John Skipper. Sauk Chief Keokuk, for whom Iowa’s southernmost city is named, was a 19th century American Indian leader who historians have compared to King Solomon, to Daniel Webster and to a cunning riverboat gambler.
