Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland

The Transformation of the Lowlands

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland by John C. Fisher, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Author: John C. Fisher ISBN: 9781476627915
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: April 24, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: John C. Fisher
ISBN: 9781476627915
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: April 24, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District—the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.

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As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District—the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.

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