Mississippi River

bridges

city park

Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary

counties

dam

Lock and Dam No. 7

depiction

downstream

down the Mississippi

eastbound on Interstate 90

Wisconsin

eastbound on U.S. Route 12

Saint Paul, Minnesota

history

Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. This name is a combination of the Indian word minni water and the Greek polis, meaning city. The first house was built here in 1849. The town was incorporated In 1867. St. Anthony, a very old town on the east bank of the river and directly at the Falls of St. Anthony, was incorporated in 1856 and merged with Minneapolis in 1872. St. Anthony city was named from the Falls, and the falls were named by the early French missionaries and explorers for St. Anthony of Padua. The falls were first seen by these missionaries on St. Anthony’s day.

island

Nicollet Island

lake in the watercourse

Lake Bemidji

lock and dam

Jason and David at Lock and Dam No. 7

map

Ramsey County from the Digitized State of Minnesota Plat Book – 1916

memoir

Life on the Mississippi

mention

Phalen Creek travels from Lake Phalen and drains into the Mississippi River just north of Lambert’s Landing.

mouth

Gulf of Mexico

not to be confused with

Mississippi

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1756854

photograph

Mississippi River from Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary

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Star (Wikipedia) A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated 1022 to 1024 stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye—all within the Milky Way galaxy.

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A blue mid stripe represents the Mississippi River; a small cabin stands for Father Gaultier’s original St. Paul chapel; a dome represents Minnesota’s Capitol and capital; and a winged wheel indicates St. Paul’s position as a transportation hub. The flag also contains a star of the north, symbolic of Minnesota, and a red shield, representing the progress and spirit of the city, while gold stripes are symbolic of the future.
Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary (saintpaulhistorical.com) A thousand years ago the area around the confluence of Trout Brook and Phalen Brook near the Mississippi River was a marshy flood plain. By the early 1900s, the entire delta had been expanded by filling and became an industrial railroad corridor. As rail use decreased in the 1970s, the land was largely abandoned and buildings and tracks were removed.
Much of Louisiana’s lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp.

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river

tributaries

vicinity

Train crossing Nicollet Island

waterfall

Saint Anthony Falls

webcam

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1497

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River

Wikipedia

Mississippi River (Wikipedia) The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the U.S. after the Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 mi (3,766 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi’s watershed drains all or parts of 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian mountains. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The main stem is entirely within the United States; the total drainage basin is 1,151,000 mi2 (2,980,000 km2), of which only about one percent is in Canada. The Mississippi ranks as the world’s tenth-largest river by discharge flow, and the largest in North America.