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Show Six-Hundred-Acre Island Forms From Nucleus of Wreck of Big Sidewheeler over the hulk of the big sidewheel steamer Brandywine, which burned near the center of the island 106 years ago, resulting in the death of 155 persons. It began as Brandy-wine Brandy-wine Towhead, kept building up until un-til it now is an island of about 600 acres. Brandywine island is about 17 miles up the Mississippi river from Memphis, writes Joseph Curtis in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Although it is on the Tennessee side of the river, it belongs to Arkansas. Off the foot of Brandywine lies Beef island, or Islands 40 and 41. A small chute separates them from Arkansas, Arkan-sas, but the ground belongs to Tennessee. Ten-nessee. At the northwest point of Brandywine is Centennial island on the Arkansas side and joining it is Island No. 37. For many years the main channel in the Mississippi river ran on the Tennessee side of Brandywine. Then came Centennial cutoff, changing the channel to the Arkansas side of island, and. nna"y -lsn-n-ing Islands 40 and 41 to the Arkan "Brandywine ehute often gets so low in summer that people walk !crossit. However, during .the h,Bh water in the early part of 1937. a current started down the chute which widened it somewhat River men believe that eventually the main channel will revert to its old brandywine island was formed |
