Telling River Stories: People and Places Along the Mississippi River
This project populates a map with stories of how people shape, and are shaped by, the Mississippi River. If we are to continue to live richly on this River, we’ll need to design, plan, and build so that we enhance instead of degrade it. Stories of people improving lives along the River are told here too.
Click the "Explore The River" button and discover the stories of the Mississippi River.
Telling River Stories is a project of the University of Minnesota's River Life Program.
The Mississippi carries an average of 436,000 tons of sediment each day. Over the course of a year, it moves an average of 159 million tons of sediment. Averages have ranged from 1,576,000 tons per day in 1951 to 219,000 in 1988.
