The Mississippi Riverwalk

The Mississippi Riverwalk (HM277P)

Location: Memphis, TN 38103 Shelby County
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Country: United States of America
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N 35° 8.968', W 90° 3.507'

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The Riverwalk is a portrait of Old Man River in the miniature-the winding 1.000-mile journey of the lower Mississippi reproduced in a one-half mile concrete sculpture. On a horizontal scale of 30 inches, or one step, to the mile, this flowing model portrays important features of the river and its floodplain, with an inlaid street map of each major community along its banks. A vertical scale of one inch to eight feet emphasizes the wandering trail the river has carved in the earth, with each topographical contour representing a five-foot change in elevation. The buff-colored center portion of the model is the Mississippi floodplain, including all the holes, sandbars, bends, and oxbow lakes that surround the river channel. The raised reddish-brown edge defines the levee system and the bluff that enclose the floodplain.

The river model is a giant jigsaw puzzle, made up of 1,745 pre-cast concrete panels, each weighing 8½ tons. An average of 1,200,000 gallons of water flows through the system.

Information panels along the Riverwalk tell the stories of memorable people places and events along the Lower Mississippi. Points of interest are indicated by small circular markers on the model, each having a number-letter combination directing you to a nearby information panel. For instance, "64C" refers to Panel 64,



Item C: Bird's Point, Missouri. The number followed by "AHP" give the point's mileage Above Head Of Passes, the navigational beginning of the river just above the Gulf of Mexico. Special watershed displays provide a bird's-eye view of the major river systems that flow into the Lower Mississippi: The Upper Mississippi-Missouri, the Ohio, the Tennessee-Cumberland, and the Arkansas-White. All but the last are located in the North Courtyard.

The Lower Mississippi River is a living organism. As it has changed, it has altered the lives of its people and those people have changed the river. The riverwalk presents the of that sometimes triumphant, sometimes tragic relationship-the human relationship between those ancient protagonists, man, and the river.
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HM NumberHM277P
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Placed ByMississippi Riverwalk
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Date Added Friday, April 27th, 2018 at 10:01am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 767972 N 3893580
Decimal Degrees35.14946667, -90.05845000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 35° 8.968', W 90° 3.507'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds35° 8' 58.08" N, 90° 3' 30.42" W
Driving DirectionsGoogle Maps
Area Code(s)901
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 25 Riverside Dr, Memphis TN 38103, US
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