Mississippi River Tales Mural
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mississippi-river-tales-mural-318-7571179
title:
Mississippi River Tales Mural
text:
The Mississippi River Tales is a mural containing 24 panels covering nearly 18,000 square feet of the 15-foot-high downtown floodwall in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It illustrates the area's history, beginning with the Native Americans who inhabited it between 900 and 1200. Each panel tells a story: Louis Lorimier platting the city in 1793, the transfer of Upper Louisiana from France to the United States in 1804, Missouri gaining statehood in 1821, the coming of the railroad in 1880, the Big Freez
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mural by Thomas Melvin in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Tales_Mural
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-01T08:22:23Z
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13
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