February 11, 2010

Bayou Bartholomew, which begins in Jefferson County and runs some 359 miles through five other Arkansas counties before entering Louisiana, was the major waterway for transportation through the interior Delta during much of the nineteenth century. With a million-acre watershed, it is the longest bayou in the world.

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