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paul lowell
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Registered: March 2005
Location: Warrenton Mo
Posts: 781
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This is an interesting photo, what is the story behind it?
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tsimiri
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Registered: July 2005
Location: Colorado, US
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Yes I would love to know as well. Where is it and what happened here? Intriguing to say the least.
-Fiona
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chaud
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Registered: April 2004
Location: British Columbia Canada
Posts: 2,268
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Very cool place and shot. At first I thought that was a headstone--that a cemetary was flooded--but now I think it must be some sort of a marker. Its shape is reminiscent of a headstone and adds an eerie/creepy sort of mood to this place and image. Nicely composed and exposed shot.
Barbara
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cameraman_2
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Maumelle, AR
Posts: 408
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chaud
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Registered: April 2004
Location: British Columbia Canada
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steve s
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Registered: September 2005
Posts: 4
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This has a cool mood to it. It's kind of funny that they'd start their survey in the middle of a swamp.
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cameraman_2
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Maumelle, AR
Posts: 408
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Well when they started the surveying in 1815 that is all Arkansas and Louisana was from the Arkansas river south. It was all swap up to your neck. Then they drained it and turned it into farm land.
Marshall
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tsimiri
Junior Member
Registered: July 2005
Location: Colorado, US
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How did they drain it? Also, thank you for the link, I also thought it was a gravestone.
-Fiona
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<span style='font-family:Geneva'>"Life is just a trick of the lighting."</span>
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ebolton
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Registered: March 2006
Location: New Hampshire, USA
Posts: 47
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Thanks for posting the link. It was interesting. Your picture is better than the one on the web site. It really shows the monument being in the middle of the swamp. It just looks ugly on the picture on the site, with the waterline on the stone.
Ed
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cameraman_2
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Maumelle, AR
Posts: 408
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I've been wondering my self how they drained it. I remember my Geography professor telling us that it was drained how bad it was to cross the swamps, all the deseases. I also sent him an email so when he gets back in touch I will let you know.
Thanks for the comments.
Marshall
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cameraman_2
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Maumelle, AR
Posts: 408
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"I believe it was primarily the way humans have drained swampy places
for thousands of years. You dig (and maintain) straight, deep channeled
canals to the nearest river, then dredge and straighten out the rivers.
The whole idea is to give water a short (read "straight") route out of
the area.
In addition, they may build weirs (flood gates) at the mouths of some
canals and creeks to keep flood waters from backing up into the area
during floods."
That is the answer my professor sent me about how they drained the swamps.
Marshall
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wolfy
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 871
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I love this pic! I think it is very interesting. I, too, thought it was a headstone. I thought they would have just dug channels to a lower area, or river. I find it funny that the lake of the ozarks are the oposite of this area. The ozarks were farmland that they flooded to make into lakes.
Neat pic, Marshall! Very interesting part of history.
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