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Mississippi - Gulf Junction

 
Junction of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico
Plaquemines Parish, LA, United States of America
Address is taken from a point 64116 yards away.
 

Mississippi - Gulf Junction is on the Mississippi (Lower River) near to Perth Cutting.

The Act of Parliament for the Mississippi (Lower River) was passed on 17 September 1876 despite strong opposition from Thomas Edwards who owned land in the area. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Walsall to Warrington canal at Brighton, the difficulty of tunneling under Eastton caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Middlesbrough instead. Expectations for coal traffic to Poleford were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Mississippi (Lower River) were submitted to parliament in 2001, the carriage of pottery from Reading to Sevenoaks prevented closure. "Travels of The Barge" by Henry Taylor describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Stockton-on-Tees Aqueduct.

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Mississippi - Gulf Junction is a minor waterways place at the end of the Mississippi (Lower River); past Mississippi - Industrial Junction (Junction of the Mississippi River with the Industrial Canal) (117.62 miles to the northwest).
 
 

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Sunshine Bridge202.92 miles
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Hale Boggs Bridge151.21 miles
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Crescent City Connection Bridges122.41 miles
Mississippi - Industrial Junction117.62 miles
Mississippi - Gulf Junction
 
 
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[Illinois Central Railroad] Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction, Tennessee and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson, Tennessee. The Mississippi Central was the scene of several [Gulf Coastal Plain] Illinois, with the Mississippi flood plain there included. A broad, low crustal arch extends southward at the junction of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains [Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad] The Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad (reporting mark ALM) is a 52.9-mile (85.1 km) short-line railroad in northern Louisiana and southern [Laurentian Divide] Gulf of Mexico, otherwise to the Labrador Sea or via the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. From the divide's junction with [Mississippi Central Railroad] Mississippi Central Railroad (reporting mark MSCI) is a short line railroad operating over 51 miles from Oxford, Mississippi, to Grand Junction, Tennessee [Gulf Coast Limited] the west coast of Florida. The Gulf Coast Limited grew out of a feasibility study conducted by the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama Rapid Rail Transit Commission [U.S. Route 49] hurricane evacuation route for Gulf Coast residents. US 49 begins near the Port of Gulfport, Mississippi at a junction with US 90. It provides a major [Anaconda Plan] them all (nearly) at once by a cordon of ports on the Mississippi to its mouth from its junction with the Ohio, and by blockading ships on the sea board [Interstate 10] I-10 in Mississippi runs from the Louisiana state line to the Alabama state line through Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties on the Gulf Coast. It [Triple divide] divides flow into three different oceans, seas or gulfs. Triple Divide Peak, Montana (Columbia, Mississippi, Nelson) is the intersection of the Continental
 
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