The Mississippi River - Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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N 37° 18.280 W 089° 31.060
16S E 276865 N 4131643
This small Rotary marker is just west of the flood wall and to the east of the railroad tracks.
Waymark Code: WMDF1Q
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2012
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This is a small brass plaque with the Rotary International Seal at the bottom is mounted on a concrete block located at one of the openings to the floodwall of Cape Girardeau. There are no date or other identifying marks on the block or plaque. The plaque itself has a portrait of a Native American Chief at the top of the plaque with the following text:
"The Father of Waters" has provided means of travel and commerce since early days. Indians, explorers, priests, traders, and settlers plied its current in canoes, dugouts, flatboats, keelboats, and towboats.
Until the Civil War, Cape Girardeau thrived as a river port for the district. It shipped out furs, pork and beef products, cotton, grain and lumber; it brought in furniture, dry goods, wetgoods, hardware, and tools, and entertainment by the showboat and races on the river.
Plaque or monument: Plaque
Placed by?: Unknown group within the Rotary
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