BrickHouse88
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Well, if you’ve ever heard of the city/village, you probably know it was the first capital of Illinois. It was originally a French city in the 1600’s or 1700’s back when France owned Illinois’s territory.
The city was built right on the Mississippi river, just east of it.
Well years later in 1881 when Illinois was part of America, the Mississippi river carved a new path and went right through the city of Kaskaskia flooding it. Big rivers do that, if you didn’t know.. Dirt and soot builds up in the river, and the water then has to move around it, and the river will end up carving a new path through land.
If you look on a map now, Kaskaskia is actually west of the Mississippi river, because of the new path the mighty Mississippi carved/made.
My question is: Why didn’t France or USA build levees or cement walls to prevent this from happening? Levees were invented in the 1700’s. Did USA have real shallow levees or weak cement walls along Kaskaskia or something?
Anyone know if the Mississippi flooded any other Illinois cities, or cities in US from carving a new path? Did the French people not know in the 1600’s that big ass rivers will carve a different path over time?, maybe building a city right on a huge river might have risks?
If anyone has info on this, please share what you know. I grew up in Illinois, and am interested in hearing if anyone’s got anything to say related to this.
The city was built right on the Mississippi river, just east of it.
Well years later in 1881 when Illinois was part of America, the Mississippi river carved a new path and went right through the city of Kaskaskia flooding it. Big rivers do that, if you didn’t know.. Dirt and soot builds up in the river, and the water then has to move around it, and the river will end up carving a new path through land.
If you look on a map now, Kaskaskia is actually west of the Mississippi river, because of the new path the mighty Mississippi carved/made.
My question is: Why didn’t France or USA build levees or cement walls to prevent this from happening? Levees were invented in the 1700’s. Did USA have real shallow levees or weak cement walls along Kaskaskia or something?
Anyone know if the Mississippi flooded any other Illinois cities, or cities in US from carving a new path? Did the French people not know in the 1600’s that big ass rivers will carve a different path over time?, maybe building a city right on a huge river might have risks?
If anyone has info on this, please share what you know. I grew up in Illinois, and am interested in hearing if anyone’s got anything to say related to this.
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