A shipwreck is in view along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, due to low water levels. Archaeologists believe the ship is a ferry that was built in the late 1800s or early 1900s and sunk in 1915.
But this is not the first time the low water levels have revealed the ship. McGimsey said that tiny parts of the vessel were exposed in 1990s.
Today one-third of the boat, measuring 95-feet long, is visible on the muddy shoreline near downtown Baton Rouge.
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