Bear Creek Fishweir No. 2
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bear-creek-fishweir-no-2-249-9718014
title:
Bear Creek Fishweir No. 2
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The Bear Creek Fishweir #2 is a historic fishing weir on Bear Creek in Tishomingo State Park, northeastern Mississippi. The weir is a roughly V-shaped stone construction built from readily available local sandstone. The walls of the weir meet closer to the western bank of the creek, where they form a chute estimated to be 11 metres (36 ft) in length. At the end of the chute, there would have been a fish trap of wooden construction, of which no traces remain. Residents almost certainly maintained
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United States historic place
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Creek_Fishweir_No._2
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2023-08-19T10:27:20Z
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