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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 17, 2009
Caption: The Neck of the Bend
Additional Description: The bend forms a geographical oddity of sorts. Looking west from the levee across the peninsula formed by the "S" bends. Looking down the road, in the distant center, beyond the two story structure, is the southward turn of the river. In that direction is the Missouri shore, and Point Pleasant, where Federal forces made a crossing to Tiptonville, Tennessee to cut off the Confederate defenders. Beyond the right is the Tennessee/Kentucky border. The land inside the northern end of the peninsula is part of Kentucky, but surrounded on three sides by Missouri, and to the south by Tennessee.
Submitted: April 24, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p60647
File Size: 1.042 Megabytes

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