As severe drought impacts bodies of water like Lake Mead and across Europe, it is also revealing mysteries of the Mississippi River – like the Brookhill ferry. Read more about it below.
below 1.5 feet, exposing a jagged pathway. Hikers can now walk across the riverbed to the rock without getting their feet wet.
Archeologists believe the sunken ship was once the Brookhill, a ferry built in the 1890s that ran night service from Baton Rouge to Port Allen. In 1915, the ship was tied to the dock and sunk during a violent storm, according to Charles “Chip” McGimsey, the Louisiana state archeologist. “Most kids learn history from a book. They are reading or looking at a picture or they go to a museum and look at things in glass cases,” McGimsey says. “There are few chances to reach out and touch history.”In the coming months, the receding river might allow for more exciting shipwreck discoveries. But the withdrawing waters are also exposing more sinister findings.found skeletal remains
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