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===Loss of Mississippi access and commercial status=== [[File:Mississippi_River_floating_dry_dock_-_Vicksburg.jpg|thumb|Floating [[drydock]] in Vicksburg, circa 1905]] Because of Vicksburg's location on the Mississippi River, it built extensive trade from the prodigious [[steamboat]] traffic in the 19th century. It shipped out cotton coming to it from surrounding counties and was a major trading city in West Central Mississippi. However, in 1876, a Mississippi River flood cut off the large [[meander]] next to Vicksburg through the De Soto Point, which changed the Mississippi River's course away from the city. Vicksburg only retained access to an [[oxbow lake]] formed from the old channel of the river, which effectively isolated the city from accessing the Mississippi riverfront. The city's economy suffered greatly due to the lack of a functional river port; Vicksburg would not be a river town again until the completion of the Yazoo Diversion Canal in 1903 by the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]].<ref>{{cite web |date=January 27, 2003 |title=Water Returned to City's Doorstep 100 Years Ago |url=https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2003/01/27/water-returned-to-citys-doorstep-100-years-ago/ |access-date=December 26, 2020 |publisher=Vicksburg Post |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518224039/https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2003/01/27/water-returned-to-citys-doorstep-100-years-ago/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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