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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The river system in the United States is unique of all the land masses on planet Earth, especially the Mississippi River basin.\u00a0 The Mississippi River basin overlays the industrial heartland of our country allowing efficient transportation of all manner of farm products, raw materials as well as finished goods of all sorts to be shipped from producers to consumers and reverse.\u00a0\u00a0 The expansion of\u00a0river traffic from the 1830’s onward allowed our nations rail system to develop quickly to the point that by the\u00a0early 1890’s rail traffic began to surpass steam powered river traffic.\u00a0 In the early 1830’s Capt. Jim Lee build steamboats as well as bought boats to run on the Cumberland River.\u00a0 By the 1850’s he was running boats on the Mississippi.\u00a0 Around 1858 he moved to Memphis and built the foundation of the Lee Line.<\/p>\n
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The river system in the United States is unique of all the land masses on planet Earth, especially the Mississippi River basin.\u00a0 The Mississippi River basin overlays the industrial heartland of our country allowing efficient transportation of all manner of … Continue reading