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Danbury Times
Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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The Sangamo Journal reports plans to build a ship at Cairo, Illinois, for trade with Liverpool, predicting it will become a major port in ten years. An embankment enclosing 1300 acres will be completed in June to prevent overflows. Cairo is at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
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"A ship is now contracted for, to be built at Cairo, the ensuing summer, designed for a regular trader between that city and Liverpool!
Start not reader! This is most certainly true; and ten years will hardly pass before ships from the ocean will unload their cargoes at Cairo city,--which city will then be a port of entry, and will take that rank among the cities of the West, to which her unrivalled position-unrivalled in any portion of the world--will entitle her.
We shall add to this article the fact that the embankment, which will enclose 1300 acres, will be completed in June, after which an overflow of the city will no longer be apprehended."
This embryo city--we believe it already has a charter--is situated in the extreme southern point of Illinois, on the peninsula formed by the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
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Primary Location
Cairo, Illinois
Event Date
Ensuing Summer; June
Outcome
embankment to prevent overflows; future port of entry and major trade hub
Event Details
A ship contracted to be built at Cairo in the ensuing summer for regular trade with Liverpool. In ten years, ocean ships expected to unload cargoes there as a port of entry. Embankment enclosing 1300 acres to be completed in June, preventing city overflows. City at junction of Ohio and Mississippi rivers.