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Maginnis Irrigation Aqueduct

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Maginnis, Patrick

Opened
  
1912

Nearest city
  
Kimball

Built
  
1912

NRHP Reference #
  
94001231

Added to NRHP
  
21 October 1994

Maginnis Irrigation Aqueduct

The Maginnis Irrigation Aqueduct, in rural Kimball County, Nebraska about five miles from Kimball, was built in 1912 by Patrick Maginnis. It consists of a woodend trestle supporting a galvanized steel flume, about 55-metre (180 ft) long and about 4.5-metre (15 ft) in maximum height. It was part of the Bay State Irrigation Canal.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It was deemed significant for association with irrigation and agriculture in the state and "as an excellent example of a structure designed to overcome a topographical obstruction", namely a draw of Lodgepole Creek. In 1994, it was "the best preserved and most visible" of several surviving aqueduct sections in the area.

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Maginnis Irrigation Aqueduct Wikipedia