2022 Mighty Mississippi Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Description:

The Mississippi River is at the core of the nation??£¤s heritage. and is variously referred to as America??£¤s backbone. its heart and its soul. From Lake Itasca??£¤s trickling overspill in Minnesota. the Mississippi flows and grows for 2.300 miles.

It streams through varied topography in Wisconsin??£¤s Driftless Area. past Iowa??£¤s millennium-old effigy mounds. and by the remains of Cahokia. the nation??£¤s largest pre-Columbian city. in Illinois. The Gateway Arch in Missouri rises near where Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked to venture westward in 1803.

The Ohio River. flowing in along Kentucky??£¤s northern border. doubles the Mississippi??£¤s volume. The Lower Mississippi is a riparian superhighway. Massive engineering works ?a channels. locks. dams and levees ?a help accommodate barge tows more than 1.000 feet long. common along the Arkansas-Tennessee boundary and beyond.

Abundant bayous in Mississippi and Louisiana split the river into a bird-foot-shaped delta. The New Orleans area hosts the river??£¤s largest port.

At the point where the Mississippi reaches the Gulf of Mexico. the trickle that started in Lake Itasca has intermingled with waters from 31 states.