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About
Beautiful Lake Bruin
We
are currently building a history of Lake Bruin on this page.
If you have information to share, please e-mail
us. We will add your information and photos to the
page. We especially love old historical pictures of homes and
folks using the lake.
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Lake
Bruin is what is referred to as an oxbow lake, one of the many lakes
created when the Mississippi River changed course in prehistoric
times. The Mississippi River is a meandering river, which
means it wiggles like a snake across the country side as its dynamic
forces eat away at its banks.
When
the Mississippi River makes what are referred to as hairpin curves,
the river elects to shorten its course to the see and cuts through
the narrow neck, leaving a slack-water oxbow lake in the process.
Overtime,
the sediment builds up along the river bank and the former channel
of the river is cutoff from the river, except at high stages.
Similar
oxbow lakes in this region are Eagle Lake in Mississippi and Lake
Providence about an hour north of Lake Bruin.
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