Mississippi River And Ohio River Confluence A Major Historical Location 

Amazing you knew it back when it was busy. Sad to see how it has fallen.

Cool that you’ve been there. These places deserve more attention.

Probably due to the frequency of flooding on that level low ground.

@@mrmyth5846 definitely an issue

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It was tough seeing the town in such rough shape.

Cairo can't catch a break. I know there was a race riot well before I came along.

Isnt that the town where they ripped that guys heart out and hung him from the street lights in 1909?

@grammaticalchainsaw7318 You may be getting your places mixed up but you got the year and the gruesomeness correct. In 1909 a lynch mob captured a black man who they believed killed a white woman even though there was no real evidence. They tried to hang him but the rope broke and he survived. Instead, they shot him 500 times, cut off his head, stuck it on a pike and placed it in the ground, people took fingers, toes, and teeth as “souvenirs,” then they burned the rest of his body. So maybe I don’t feel too sorry for Cairo for its current state today

@rogerrice1772 The state government of Illinois is no more responsible for Cairo being a hellhole than the state government of Missouri is responsible for Benton, MO being a hellhole

Yes, it was hard to see that community in tough shape.

I guess we need to turn the rivers back into the highways. Railroads, roads, streets, highways and airplanes were invented. So the river wasn’t necessary to move things long distances anymore. Some things still get moved that way but nowhere near as much. Just like trucking killed off lots of railroad towns. It’s called life goes on. Grow and move with it or get left behind.

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One of my ancestors enlisted in the Union army, along with three cousins, and were assigned to Grant's army assembling at Cairo. Two of the cousins died in Cairo either of dysentery or cholera. My ancestor and the other cousin fought all the way down the Mississippi to Vicksburg, where the cousin was killed in Grant's ill-advised frontal assault on the city.

@@clarkmorrison7243 Your brave ancestors were a microcosm of the Civil War. Two dying of disease in the often unsanitary military encampments where soldiers lived with scant shelter under broiling sun, pouring rain, and frigid snows, and another killed in action. They and others of their generation did their duty, ultimately keeping the Mississippi River and the states around it in the Union.

@@alansewell7810 This is my response whenever BLM and others agitate for slavery reparations. My family long ago paid a very high price to bring slavery to an end.

One of my gg grandfathers passed through this area on his way to serve under U.S. Grant during the battle of Vicksburg. He had probably never left his eastern Kentucky mountain community and then there he was on a steamship passing from the Ohio to the mighty Mississippi River. "His troops are marching on..."

You should see how wide the Columbia River is in Astoria, OR! The bridge crossing the river is over 4 miles long.

Sounds very cool

Great story, wish we could see those drawings.

Wow! Would be cool to see that ship!

The US Navy was established in 1775. The USS Cairo was nowhere near the first ship. The USS Constitution has it beat by 64 years.

@@waterloop Definitely worth a trip to Vicksburg to see this ship. Extremely treacherous work to pull it up from the river bottom and now it is a living museum.

That’s fascinating history!

Yep, this was the area that General Grant started his first major command in the civil war.

@@Winstonrodney6989 Described in "Grant moves South" by Bruce Catton, one of my favorite books on the Civil War.

@@mikesnyder1788 nice! I learned it through the civil war podcast with rich and Tracy. If you are into the civil war it is a top notch podcast.

@@Winstonrodney6989 Thanks! I will check this out. What a story!!!

Wait awhile before you go, one bridge was shut down back I March it may still be closed

We appreciate that feedback. Usually there is a reason that places have fallen in tough times.

What is that reason you think?

@@johnhoward3042 The flooding. Banks and insurance companies aren't going to touch a place that floods. It's hard to get development going without those two. And, having lived in old river towns that have seen better days, I do realize there are numerous issues that plague these places.

It truly is an amazing place!

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@@thomasbooth9079 oh wow, had no idea! Please subscribe to our channel to support and learn more.

There isn’t tons there but it’s a cool and important location with a variety of history.

I live 20 min from where this was shot. Trust me it’s not worth the road trip. You saw the video, so you’ve seen all there is to see.

Interesting. Where did you cross?

@@waterloop Arkansas

Yes .the river was very low due to drought conditions. Had to keep the channel open for barge traffic so parts of the river were dried up.

That would be cool to see.

Ah, very good point!

Many say it’s actually the Missouri River. Which is more plausible?

@@ericspratt3164 If you go by longest river, it should be the Missouri. If you're going by largest water contribution, it should be the Ohio. Hence, it's named the Mississippi.

Mississippi is from the native American name meaning Father of Waters. It wasn't named by the white man.

@@johnchandler1687 Perhaps not named by, but the pronunciation of the Ojibwe's "misi-ziibi" is definitely a European-American's pronunciation.

@@The_DC_Kid thanks for sharing your opinion

This was filmed in mid June

Yes! The Mississippi is a major flyway!

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@@waterloop Subscribed! I really like geography in general and rivers and streams have always fascinated me. Question: Have you done a video about the preglacial Teays River in Ohio? Much thanks!

That could be true! Cairo is the far south tip of the state.

@@williamparrish9762 not totally sure but we saw a couple of boats fishing right where the two rivers came together!

Love that

That would be extremely dangerous, suicidal.

The currents from the rivers are pretty strong there.

​@@waterloopOK thank you,/ looks stagnant

@@kevinkwiatkowski7197 Oh no, it moves faster then it looks. The real current issues are undercurrents below the water surface, and further aggravate by washes from passing barges. You do not want to be caught in a barge wash that sucks you into the under tow. The rive may look wide, flat and slow, but their are deep channels running through the bottom of it that run alot faster. Also, these rivers see incredible amounts of barge traffic. Also the many attached stillwater sloughs. The waters are.....quite slimy to say the least. Which also adds to the undertow issue. it's not Lake Erie circa 1970's polluted, but it is polluted enough where you will get weighted down and lose natural buoyancy, further aggravating your chances to get sucked under and not able to get back top

Way too much current. Whirlpools, flood debris, etc.

What makes you think that?

@@MissLippy-fy6bj - Hmmm..maybe because they're the two largest rivers in the North America?

@@dennissvitak5475The Missouri isn't anywhere near as large as the Ohio. The Ohio's average discharge is 281,000 square feet of water per second and the Missouri is 87,520. It's not even close.

Always easier going downstream!

Really? Christ.

But they named the Mississippi from the other end before finding that the rivers come together.

Perhaps, but as is stated in the video, the muddy murky water from the Mississippi appears to dominate at the confluence. By that point alone, couldn’t one assume it’s the ending of one of those bodies of water, and the continuation of the other?

I use to think that but now I think that the Ohio should be called the Mississippi and the Mississippi something else. The river is at its biggest after the confluence where it flows along Mississippi for a very long time.

​@@justinbaranski5962When you get an aerial shot it clearly looks like the Ohio is the main stem.

The area can have severe flooding from the two rivers so that is tough for building the community.

We spoke to the Mayor of Cairo the same day this video was filmed and copied how he pronounced it.

Didn't sound right to me. I'll have to listen again.

@@doombeagle4262 woah

No, it isn't.

I’ll get there one day!

@waterloop drive up Ohio SR 7 or WVA SR 2. Beautiful drive. I've been to Pittsburgh dozens of times, and if you go there you will appreciate the view from Mt Washington of the three rivers coming together consisting of the Allegheny, Monongahela, to form the Ohio. If you are not aware, the Seneca Indians of NY called the Allegheny - Oyo, so I believe the Allegheny River should be the Ohio River up into NY w the Mon being a tributary coming from the southeast at Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh, the Allegheny is greenish, and the Mon that joins it, is dirty brown normally.

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@@patrickbuglass973 wrong. destroying all the beaver dams upstream for hats.

Bugs aren't so bad.

@@AK-DIRECT907 yes I realized I said that. Most videos are unrehearsed and recorded as I think and talk. So it’s not perfect.

Well, it sort of works. I am a native American but I am not an indigenous native American. 😂

We've heard about those sharks getting way up the Mississippi!

@@waterloop Small world

That’s news to us!

😂😂😂 Did you watch a Netflix documentary about them or something?

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