Originally Posted by
captain kong
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In the `old` days cotton camefrom Batton Rouge 200 miles up the Mississipi, down to New Orleans on barges to be loaded onto a Harrison boat and all the way to Manchester then unloaded onto barges then up the canal to the town center of Bolton, to make Bolton the `Cotton Town` of the world, the cotton travelled all those thousands of miles and had never been on a road.What a wonderful way of transportation.
Yes... but those old days were before the car and the train were invented.... Canal beats horse most times for large volumes.
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We wanted to take a Mississippi cruise this summer, but alas, the only operator who did overnight trips quit last year.
Not a very efficient way of traveling, but it would be nice as a tourist...
The Mississipi was (and still is) the entry into the heartland of the US. The levies are strange though... walking along a city street and looking UP at a ocean freighter sailing by is strange.
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