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Wakonda State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Missouri consisting of near La Grange in Lewis County. ==History== Wakonda, an Osage Indian word meaning something consecrated or spiritual, was established by the Missouri State Park Board in 1960 on transferred from the Missouri Highway Commission. The area is one of the few remaining sand prairie areas to be found along the central and northern Mississippi River. During the Ice Age, glacial movement left large deposits of high quality gravel and sand. Beginning in 1924, the Missouri Highway Commission contracted with private companies to remove the large gravel deposits for use in road surfacing materials. The gravel was very deep, requiring open-pit mining techniques which eventually led to the creation of the six lakes that dot the Wakonda park landscape. By the 1980s, some 26 million tons of sand and gravel had been removed from the area. Additional land purchases by the state, including a tract in 1992, created the park's current dimensions.〔
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