AN INTERESTING TIDBIT FROM THIS MAGAZINE
By 2000 B.C. the Mississippi River had moved to the east side of Crowley’s
Ridge and well east of the Monette area. The Ohio River was then in the vicinity
of the present Mississippi River. During the next 1000 years the Mississippi
channel moved gradually eastward until it was flowing close to the Ohio
River and roughly parallel to it, merging in the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas. By
the beginning of the Christian era, the two rivers had joined near Cairo, Illinois
and so began the modern alluvial valley pattern (Fisk, 1944).
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