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Hoover on the Mississippi talk
News · May 21, 2015
On Thursday, May 28, Dr. John O. Anfinson will examine Herbert Hoover’s role in defining the upper Mississippi River we know today.
The presentation is free and begins at 7 p.m. in the visitor center of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.
John Anfinson is superintendent of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
For more information go online at www.nps.gov/heho or call (319) 643-2541.
Herbert Hoover played a key role in two major and contradictory projects on the upper river. Through his position as Secretary of Commerce, Hoover helped establish the Upper Mississippi National Fish and Wildlife Refuge in 1924. Six years later, as president, he approved construction of the 9-Foot Channel project, under which most of the Corps of Engineers built 23 locks and dams. Many assume the locks and dams were contrived during the 1930s as a New Deal project; however the project had been authorized under President Hoover’s administration. Anfinson will look at Hoover’s role in these two important projects.
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