Michigan at Vicksburg
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Excerpt from Michigan at Vicksburg: Published Pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution of the Michigan Legislature, April 11th, 1917 Vicksburg is located on the Yazoo and on the Mississippi rivers about half wav between Memphis and New Orleans, Until 1876 it was wholly on the Mississippi, the river previous to that time making a bend that formed a tongue of land opposite the city, the stream rounding the end of this tongue about two miles above the city. In the year mentioned the river cut across the base of this tongue making an island of it, and relegating to the old channel only the back waters of the stream. Thus was formed what was called Lake Centennial, the waters of which, as a rule insufficient for steamboat purposes, became the only ones that laved the city´s once busy levee. In recent years, however, the United States Government cut a canal from the Yazoo river across to the upper end of the old channel, dammed the west outlet to Lake Centennial, and let the waters of the Yazoo through the old channel, thus restoring a river front to the heart of the city. From the main road in the southern part of the city, which road skirts the river along the high bluff overlooking the surrounding country. the tourist not only has a fine scenic attraction before him, but a particularly clear panorama of this interesting feature of Vicksburg´s relation to the waters mentioned. It is one of the show features of the place. Vicksburg´s history goes back to the time of the French and the Spanish occupation of the country, but derives its name from the family of Vicks, the founder of which was Newit Vick, a planter and Methodist clergyman, who died in 1819 at his home a few miles east of the present site of the city, leaving thirteen children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. In 1860 the population of Vicksburg was about five thousand, and it was then, as now a prosperous, and the principal commercial city of the state. Each decade has shown a generous increase in its population, it now having 20,000. It is one of the largest cotton markets in the country, and has other important business interests, including some considerable manufacturing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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