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Leveecamps constructed from the early 1800s to the 1930s were originally initiated to create a system of man made levees along the Mississippi river...
The MississippiDelta, also known as the Yazoo–MississippiDelta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
Pleistocene age. In the MississippiDelta, Native American settlements and agricultural fields were developed on the natural levees, higher ground in the...
340 miles (3,766 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts...
(with Alan Wilson) LeveeCamp Moan This Little Light of Mine Monologue - Thinkin' Strong Death Letter Blues How to Treat a Man (with Delta Dave) Grinnin'...
largest cotton plantations in the Delta, set up camps on the levee that protected Greenville. He supplied the camps with field kitchens and tents for...
overwhelmed some levees in eastern New Orleans in 1965, while a storm surge funneled in by the Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal and a levee failure flooded...
to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the MississippiDelta region, invited him to share engagements and to accompany him to a...
border of Texas to the Mississippi line and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3)...
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a planter's...
Greenville, Mississippi as a child. By the early 1900s, he led a band who performed regularly at dances and civic events in the MississippiDelta. Around...
Mississippi River. The area formed when a breach in the natural levee of the Mississippi River occurred in 1862 approximately 100 miles (160 km) below New...
canal levees and flood walls. As mandated in the Flood Control Act of 1965, responsibility for the design and construction of the city’s levees belongs...
began his career entertaining at sawmills and at levee and railroad camps in the MississippiDelta around the turn of the twentieth century. While in...
towards the Mississippi River, and then northwards to the village of Eagle Bend. The highway then traverses on the Mississippi River levee on a one-lane...
Theater) – A 1918 theater building designed by John Gaisford. Yazoo-MississippiDeltaLevee Board Building Copiah County Courthouse Copiah-Lincoln Community...
downstream flooding. The building of levees only protects the area behind the levees and not those further downstream. Levees and flood banks can also increase...
These man-made levees contribute to extensive down-stream flooding and sediment pollution in the Mississippi River Delta. After the levees were built, however...
transporting prisoners to and from his delta plantation camps. Richardson used the prison laborers to build levees, clear trees from swamps, and plow fields...
Down in the Circle Before" and "LeveeCamp Story", that he worked as a construction hand on the Laconia Circle Levee near Snow Lake, Arkansas, as a young...