

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Draining The Swamps:  The Little River Drainage District
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Some amazing history of our area.   As always this event is free.  You must call to reserve seats. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Plans to turn the swamps of Southeast Missouri into farmland date back to the 1840s, but the job seemed too big.  Not even the government had ever undertaken anything of this magnitude before.  But, the landscape was soon to be transformed.  The early French trappers who explored the region called it “Little River” to distinguish it from its larger cousin a few miles to the east, the Mississippi River. Ironically, the little body of water provided the name for the largest drainage district in the United States.  Dustin Boatwright, Chief Engineer &amp; Executive Vice President of The Little River Drainage District will tell our guests about the history and ongoing project of draining the swamps of Southeast Missouri.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/malden/draining-the-swamps-the-little-river-drainage-district/200029739043828
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 31

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029739043828?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=malden-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Malden
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 700 N Douglass St # A, Malden, MO, United States, Missouri 63863
- **lat**: 36.56657
- **long**: -89.96965
- **full address**: 700 N Douglass St # A, Malden, MO, United States, Missouri 63863

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Bootheel Youth Museum (https://allevents.in/org/bootheel-youth-museum/19376302)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 700 N Douglass St # A, Malden, MO, United States, Missouri 63863
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bootheel Youth Museum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Draining The Swamps:  The Little River Drainage District ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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