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| | ajc.com | Travel | New Iowa aquarium honors the Mississippi | ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The museum, which opened this summer, has riverboat exhibits, a theater and library, a boardwalk trail through a wetland and plenty of live creatures, including fish, turtles, alligators, snakes and otters. |
 | | Stretching for five acres along the riverfront, the museum is part of a larger $188 million America's River project, which includes a conference center, resort and river walk. |
 | | The Mississippi River is 2,348 miles long from its headwaters in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, passing through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi along the way. |
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