Photograph of Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park — Photograph by Russ Price ( SIGBUS ), CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hennepin Canal Historic District

Built in 1970. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Hennepin Canal State Trail, also just called the Hennepin Canal, is an abandoned waterway in northwest Illinois, between the Mississippi River at Rock Island and the Illinois River near Hennepin. The entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Bureau County · listed in 1978 · category: District · built in 1970.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. W To Moline then N to Rock Falls vic., Hennepin, 61283
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. district
When was it built? 1970
National Register reference number. 78003433 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78003433 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bureau County	All 19 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.