Mud Island River Park, Memphis (June, 2002)

 
The model started on the Mississippi River south of St. Louis and on the Ohio River around Paducah, KY.  They merged at Cairo, IL and took off toward the Gulf Of Mexico 1,000 miles away.

In order to not mislead visitors that both rivers just kinda started right there, they did a nice job depicting the headwaters of each.  A wall (pictured here) with water running down it contains the geography of the Missouri River and the upper Mississippi.  The other side showed the Ohio River valley.  Really a neat way of depicting it!

 
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