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This steamboat plied the Mississippi River watershed after her construction in 1924. In 2009 she was disassembled and transported overland to St. Elmo, Illinois. This loss of historical integrity prompted the National Park Service to withdraw her landmark designation.
Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River is a historically significant map produced in 1858 of landmarks, roads, ferry crossings, and plantations along the course of the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans. [1] [2] Cotton and sugar plantations are color-coded with distinct colors. [1]
Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto A.D. 1541 by William Henry Powell depicts Hernando de Soto and Spanish Conquistadores seeing the Mississippi River for the first time. Map of the French settlements (blue) in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763). c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition.
There are more than 1,400 sites distributed among all of Mississippi's 82 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1]
10 South in Downtown Vicksburg is a restaurant with amazing views of the Mississippi River. Vicksburg The historic town of 22,000 is likely best known for the Civil War’s Battle of Vicksburg ...
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]
Sugar Loaf is a bluff on the Mississippi River topped by a rock pinnacle, overlooking the city of Winona, Minnesota, United States. [3] The name "Sugar Loaf" is sometimes taken to mean just the rock pinnacle, which was created by quarrying in the 19th century.
See List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Mississippi . Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi (state) .