Jackson'sArm
Corporal
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2017
- Location
- just south of the Red River
View of the Mississippi from the heights of downtown Vicksburg... but actually it's the Yazoo Diversion Canal, not the Mississippi since 1876, when the Great River changed course and left Vicksburg stranded. The new canal, built by the Corps of Engineers over the course of a quarter-century, was dedicated in 1903 and made Vicksburg a riverfront city again. When the work was complete, the Corps had moved about 5,750, ooo cubic yards of earth. The total cost of the project at the time was $1,250,000.
(Pardon the photo manipulation... I'm enamored of this Artisto app.)