“The Castle on the River”: This comprises three or four industrial buildings, owned by Tom Carr of Atomic Neon, that are right against the bluffs and are used for artists’ studios.īig Mound: Ever spot the rock on a plinth at Broadway and Mound Street and wonder what it is? (The brass marker is gone.) It’s the site of Big Mound, the last of the Native-American mounds to be leveled on the North Side. Secret PlacesĪngel on Column: At Dickson and Lewis streets, one block from the Laclede Power Center, there’s a column bearing an angel Tim Tucker traded a piece of Theodore Link architectural salvage for some columns, and set the angel atop one at this site. ![]() Its average is 11.3 feet its low was –6.2 feet, when the river froze in January 1940. It was created at the start of the Civil War and reached its high mark in 1993, at 49.58 feet. The gauge at the foot of Market Street is the oldest on the Middle Mississippi River. Maple Island: Just south of the Melvin Price Locks and Dam, this area is a popular spot for anglers hoping to snag spoonbill and catfish. Three centuries ago, this French settlement was the capital of Illinois.Ĭhouteau Island: The 10 miles of river west of this manmade island are the longest barge-free stretch between St. Kaskaskia Island: It’s part of Illinois, yet it lies on the west side of the Mississippi and can only be reached by car from Missouri. Louis, and the Gateway Geyser now erupts on that once-bloodied soil. Islandsīloody Island: Its scratchy underbrush and cottonwood trees once hid duels, cockfights, and illegal boxing. Maria: This steamer’s boilers blew in 1864, possibly from sabotage, leading rivermen to utter the phrase “Hell and Maria” for decades thereafter. You can see the wreck in low water just north of the Eads Bridge. Louis in April 1865 when the boilers failed right above Memphis, 13 days after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.Ĭape Girardeau: Later renamed the River Queen, the vessel sank in 1968. SS Sultana: The steamboat was bound for St. Navy minesweeper broke loose from her moorings in front of the Gateway Arch, smashed into one of the piers of the Poplar Street Bridge, and now lies just south of the MacArthur Bridge. USS Inaugural: In the 1993 flood, this U.S. The sinking boat rolled over, claiming their lives. When it struck a rock and flames shot up from the furnaces, men chivalrously ushered women and children to the gangplank. ShipwrecksĬity of Saltillo: Wrecked in 1910, it is lodged near Pevely and visible in low water. Bridge was built during World War II to connect the barracks with Scott Air Force Base. Jefferson Barracks Bridge: Bridges, actually. MacArthur Bridge: Its construction was a brazen attempt in 1889 to break the Terminal Railroad Association’s stranglehold on railroad traffic. New Chain of Rocks (I-270) Bridge: It eased the insanity of the narrow Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, now happily used by cyclists.Ĭlark Bridge: This cable-stayed bridge set an engineering precedent when it opened. Merchants Bridge: The new Mississippi bridge will cross just south of it, at the foot of Cass Avenue. ![]() Poplar Street Bridge: If you commute from the Metro East, you already know it far too well. It opened in 1910 and carried trains, horse-drawn vehicles, and automobiles. McKinley Bridge: It was named not for President William McKinley, but for railroad magnate William Brown McKinley. The land at its foot was ground zero for the Great Fire of 1849. Martin Luther King Bridge: It opened in 1951 as the Veterans Bridge. Eads Bridge: One of the world’s most beautiful bridges, it went bankrupt and was twice condemned as a navigation hazard.
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