Before 1830, the Mississippi river port of New Orleans was the major link between midwestern farmers and the cities of the northeast.
From large cities like New Orleans and St. Louis to little historic villages like Hannibal, the home of Mark Twain, and historic Vicksburg, Mississippi, Mississippi ports are diverse. South of Minneapolis, at Red Wing, is where many of our cruises set off from and return to.
In the 1820s, traffic from New Orleans was diverted by canals and then by railroads that more closely connected the Northeast and the Old Northwest. Direct commerce had effectively dismantled the Louisiana River's monopoly on western trade by 1845 between the two northernmost U.S. districts.
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