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Help Wanted Boat Tour!
Join us for our NEW Help Wanted Interactive Boat Tour! During this interactive living history tour, YOU will enter the world of a Packet Boat CAPTAIN, a DECKHAND, or a…
Find out more »Mule Pulled Canal Boat Tour
The Only Mule-Pulled Boat Ride in Illinois! Take a journey back in time aboard the “Volunteer,” a 70-passenger, mule-pulled 1840’s replica canal boat, as it coasts gently up and down…
Find out more »Mules, Mansion, & Mimosas Boat Tour
Take the I&M Canal's Weekend brunch boat ride! Combine a mimosa at Lock 16 Café, a historic 1-hour mule pulled boat ride on the I&M Canal Boat, and a 1-hour…
Find out more »Dinner & a Little History: Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek
Join us Thursday, October 5th 2017 at the Lock 16 Cafe for our Dinner Lecture: Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek. Located in northeastern Illinois, Mazon…
Find out more »Lincoln Day on the I&M Canal!
Join Mary Todd Lincoln as she hosts this very special canal boat tour! Climb aboard a replica 19th Century canal boat and step back in time to 1848. Mary…
Find out more »The Global Challenge of ‘Place Making’ with Speaker Gerald Adelmann
Join us on October 19th 2017 at 11:00am for Lewis University's James & Mary Sczepaniak Lecture Series with speaker Gerald W. Adelmann presenting “The Global Challenge of ‘Place Making’: How…
Find out more »I&M Canal Haunted Boat Tour
A Halloween adventure filled with legend, mystery and horror! Come to the I&M Canal Boat for a 1-hour ghostly, spooky mule-pulled canal boat adventure. This guided haunted canal boat tour is…
Find out more »Dinner & a Little History: Trail Markers: Past & Present
Join us Thursday, November 30th 2017 at the Lock 16 Cafe for our Dinner Lecture: Trail Markers: Past & Present. The Trail Marker Trees as well as the Marker Trees…
Find out more »Dinner & A Little History: Lost in the Town of Sag Bridge
Join us, Thursday February 22nd 2018, at the Gaylord building for our Dinner lecture series: Lost in the Town of Sag Bridge with speaker & author Patrica Camalliere! Although it…
Find out more »Sunday Lecture Series: Labor History in the Illinois Valley
Join us, Sunday March 11th 2018, at the Lock 16 Visitor Center for our Sunday lecture series: Labor History in the Illinois Valley! Illinois Valley workers organized to protect…
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