ghost town
Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to:
* Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned
Film and television
* Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser
* Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' ...
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Issaquena County, Mississippi
Issaquena County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,406, making it the least populous county in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Its county seat is Mayersville. Wi ...
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Magna Vista originated as a postal village located directly on the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...
. It had a population of 50 in 1900. A post office operated under the name Magna Vista from 1887 to 1932.
In 1934, the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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began construction of the Newman Cutoff, which created Chotard Lake and Albemarle Lake, both oxbow lakes, and removed Magna Vista from the contiguous Mississippi River.
The place where Magna Vista was located is now directly on top of the Mississippi Levee. Nothing remains of the former settlement.