Mud Island (Island Week 2)
(It’s
Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting
about Islands. For about a week.)
On the mighty Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, is
Mud Island, which is home to a steamboat museum, restaurants,
an
outdoor amphitheatre and some nice
large type.
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Okay, technically Mud Island isn’t actually an island,
but rather a
small peninsula. However, it does contain a
hydraulic scale model of the lower Mississippi
recreated in miniature all the way from
Cairo, Illinois south to
New Orleans!
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Which probably makes this the world’s only model of a river on
an island (that’s actually a peninsula) in the river that the model
is a model of…
Or something.
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Read more about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_Island,_Memphis Mud Island
at Wikipedia. Thanks to dedHED and Nat Case.