Confluence Mississippi & Missouri Rivers

These images were taken in 2008 at the Edward "Ted" & Pat Jones - Confluence Point State Park. The park is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi river north of St. Louis and near Alton, Illinois.

In 1721, French explorer, Father Pierre Francois de Charlevoix, wrote of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, "I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much the same breadth, each about half a league: but the Missouri is by for the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its white waters to the opposite shore without mixing them, afterwards, it gives its color to the Mississippi which it never loses again but carries quite down to the sea ..."

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