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Ask Rufus: The Jenny Lind and the Freshet of 1851


Ask Rufus: The Jenny Lind and the Freshet of 1851
In 1851, the Jenny Lind was a Columbus-Mobile packet boat that passed under the bridge at Columbus on an overflowing Tombigbee River to save 1,100 bales of cotton in a flood threatened riverside warehouse. This is an 1855 engraving of the Magnolia, a typical Tombigbee River packet boat of the 1850s. The Jenny Lind would have looked very similar to the Magnolia. Courtesy image
On February 22, 1851, the Columbus Democrat reported, “Our river has again overflowed its banks, and reached within a few inches of the great freshet of 1847.”
The New Orleans Times Picayune carried an account from Aberdeen of the 3-story brick store building of Cozart & Clark collapsing onto the next-door wooden drugstore building of Dr J Street. The paper attributed the collapse “to the effects of the recent overflow of the Tombigbee River…” ....

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