{"id":6058,"date":"2026-07-13T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:04:18","slug":"source-of-mississippi-river-was-found-by-henry-schoolcraft-in-1832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6058","title":{"rendered":"Source of Mississippi River Was Found by Henry Schoolcraft in 1832"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10378\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10378\" class=\"wp-image-10378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lake-Itasca-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Itasca\" width=\"267\" height=\"177\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Itasca<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Source of Mississippi River Was Found by Henry Schoolcraft in 1832.<\/b> He named the Minnesota body of water Lake Itasca. The Mississippi River flows south 2,350 miles from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the world\u2019s fourth longest river system (after the Nile River, the Amazon River, and the Yangtze River). Children could find some <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">VERY INTERESTING FACTS<\/span><\/strong> at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/miss\/riverfacts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/miss\/riverfacts.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source of Mississippi River Was Found by Henry Schoolcraft in 1832. He named the Minnesota body of water Lake Itasca. The Mississippi River flows south 2,350 miles from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the world\u2019s fourth longest river system (after the Nile River, the Amazon River, and the Yangtze River). Children <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6058' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5716,663,5715,664,665,662],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5716","tag-henry-schoolcraft","tag-july-13","tag-lake-itasca","tag-mississippi-river","tag-source-of-mississippi-river","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29558,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/29558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}