I said, "Looks like an industrial canal."

The lower stretch of the Missouri, dynamic and free-flowing 200 years ago, is today an industrial canal serving a dying barge industry.

It was built by James Brindley and is the world's first true industrial canal, and Britain's first arterial canal.

The section is near Conrail tracks and an industrial canal.

The canal is regarded as the first industrial canal in North America.

It was one of the few successful industrial canals in the American South.

But in rude shacks that mouldered by the industrial canals, and in front rooms blocked by dark windows, prayers were raised to stranger gods.

Driving along the industrial canal a few days later, I came across Abundance Square, a mixed-income residential development.

The plan will clean the area and create an industrial canal to divert effluent to a new waste treatment plant.

The French side of the canal has been deepened and it looks like much more of an industrial canal.