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"Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defenses of the Western and Southwestern Frontier" published 1837, showing west Mississippi, Baton Rouge, and the Arkansas River and approximate indigenous territories at that time (NARA 77452208) The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and treaties involving Jackson before his presidency displaced most of the major tribes of the Southeast from their traditional ...
Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Constructed of wood in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard [1] in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sultana was intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade.
List of crossings of the Lower Mississippi River – crossings south of the Ohio River This page was last edited on 22 March 2022, at 21:08 (UTC). Text is available ...
The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area in Louisiana, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta. Rather, the Mississippi Delta is part of an alluvial plain, created by regular flooding of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers over thousands of years. The climate is ...
The main course of the river has since moved to the east side of the island, so the site of the fight is thus located west of the modern river on Giles Island. However, the river's original path still serves as the border between the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, so the site of the brawl is and always was within Mississippi. [3]
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles (70,000 km 2) inundated in depths of up to 30 feet (9 m) over the course of several months in early 1927. The period cost of the damage has been estimated to be between $246 million and $1 billion, which ranges ...
The removal of the massive log jams hastened the capture of the Mississippi River's waters in lower Louisiana by the Atchafalaya River, a major distributary emptying separately into the Gulf of Mexico. In the 20th century, to maintain the Mississippi, the US Army Corps of Engineers built the multibillion-dollar Old River Control Structure. [7]
Near the mouth of the Bad Axe River, on August 1, 1832, Black Hawk and Winnebago prophet and fellow British Band leader White Cloud advised the band against wasting time building rafts to cross the Mississippi River, because the U.S. forces were closing in, urging them instead to flee northward and seek refuge among the Ho-Chunk. However, most ...