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Confluence at Columbia Bottoms MO340 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
[Benches on the concrete platform, contain quotes of famous people about the rivers.]
"...THE BASIN of the Mississippi is the
THE BODY OF THE NATION." Mark Twain, 1880.
"THE MISSOURI RIVER is too thick to drink and
too thin to plow." Missouri farmers, 1800s to present.
"...THROUGH A VAST UNKNOWN
of barbarism, poured its turbid floods into the
bosom of its gentle sister."Father Jacques Marquette, 1673.
Missouri Department of Conservation.
Columbia Bottoms Rd., Columbia Bottoms C.A., Confluence Platform, Spanish Lake, Saint Louis County Missouri
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