John M Barry's Rising Tide The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America is a surprisingly interesting take on efforts since the early 1800s to tame the largest and wildest river system in the country These efforts have been the result of oftenvicious debates among hydrologists that lend a human background to the story, andThe Mississippi River "Great Flood of 1927" inundated large areas in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana However, it was in Mississippi where the embankments overflowed, drowning hundreds, perhaps a thousand people, and became one of the largestThe Greenville 1927 Flood Museum is a project of the City of Greenville, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, The Mississippi Levee Board, and a variety of volunteers with the principal volunteer Benji Nelken a local businessman and keeper of local history The museum's grand opening was held Monday, This set is a collection of pictures I took of the event
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