The recovered remains of USS Cairo, an ironclad gunboat sunk by electrically detonated mines in 1862 and later raised from the Yazoo River. The preserved vessel and artifacts form one of Mississippi's strangest large-scale archaeological museum displays.
Filed under museums: small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
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Source: nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/uss-cairo-gunboat.htm