By: Morgan Boone. The Mississippi River starts in Minnesota, way up by Canada and goes all the way...

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER By: Morgan Boone

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Page 1: By: Morgan Boone.  The Mississippi River starts in Minnesota, way up by Canada and goes all the way to New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico.

MISSISSIPPI RIVERBy: Morgan Boone

Page 2: By: Morgan Boone.  The Mississippi River starts in Minnesota, way up by Canada and goes all the way to New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico.

Mississippi River Start and End

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River starts in Minnesota, way up by Canada and goes all the way to New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mississippi River’s States

The Mississippi River flows through ten states and the ten states are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

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The Mighty Mississippi

The Mississippi River is the largest river in North America.

The Mississippi River is 2, 320 miles long.

It is the forth longest and the tenth largest river in the world.

The name Mississippi River comes from its water course from Minnesota to Mississippi.

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The beginning of the river

The Mississippi River starts at a lake in Minnesota called Lake Itasca.

This is a picture of what the start of the river might look like. The river is a little smaller in Minnesota than it is in Mississippi.

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Mighty Mississippi

Some call it the Mighty Mississippi. It can be very powerful like the picture shows.

This is a picture showing some houses that were flooded this year. This was caused by a lot of rain that caused flooding in several states and many people lost their homes.

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Throughout the spring, the Mississippi River is a highway for barges filled with corn, soybeans and other crops headed from the Midwest to ports near New Orleans. The crops are then loaded onto massive grain carriers to be sent around the world.

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Reference Page

The Huffington Post Wikipedia State of Minnesota

Home Page The Clarion Ledger Nola.com ( New

Orleans Paper)