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Bloody Island was a sandbar or "towhead" (river island) in the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri, which became densely wooded and a rendezvous for duelists because it was considered "neutral" and not under Missouri or Illinois control.
Apr 17, 2020 · IT EMERGED INNOCENTLY enough around 1798, quietly and ever so slowly surfacing above the muddy Mississippi River. At first, it was just one among the thousands of sandbars that are born and die each year as the mighty river ebbs and flows.
Apr 17, 2020 · The Mississippi River helped make St. Louis the city it is today, but one part of St. Louis and its mighty river history that seems to be forgotten almost entirely is the story of Bloody Island, an island-like sandbar in the river two centuries ago that was a popular local site for dueling and illegal activities.
Bloody Island was a sandbar or "towhead" in the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri, which became densely wooded and a rendezvous for duelists because it was considered "neutral" and not under Missouri or Illinois control.
Dec 14, 2023 · In the late 1790s, a large sandy island emerged in the middle of the Mississippi River, across from St. Louis, Missouri, as a result of the Mississippi’s current shifting and piling up silt and river debris. This newly formed island was in the jurisdiction of neither Missouri nor Illinois.
Mar 26, 2019 · Bloody Island, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, became a permanent part of the Illinois shore when the Army Corps of Engineers pushed it back out of the Mississippi using dams and dikes in the 1830s.
The southwestern sandbar became known as Duncan's Island while the much larger sandbar on the Illinois side was called Bloody Island. The name came from the sandbar's popularity as a dueling field due to its neutral location, technically outside of both states.
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