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Posted: November 15, 2009 at 3:23 a.m.
100 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1909 ARKANSAS CITY — With one mighty explosion of dynamite, the big earthen dam that holds the waters of Boggy lake and the surrounding marshes from the drainage ditch of Desha county Drainage District No. 1 will be blown away this week, and five billion gallons of water will be released to rush through the drain into Bayou Macon and thence into the Mississippi river.
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