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Photographer: Duane Hall
Taken: March 22, 2010
Caption: Grindstone Ford Interpretive Sign
Additional Description: Riverboatmen on foot or horseback crossed here, northbound, after floating cargoes down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans. Soldiers splashed across from the north to protect the Natchez District from British and Spanish threats. For post riders, Indians, bandits, and preachers, Bayou Pierre was the line between civilization and wilderness.
Submitted: December 19, 2012, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p229149
File Size: 0.238 Megabytes

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