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Stoddard County

Where Stars and Stripes was first printed, and the swamps and marshes of Mingo.

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Swamps & Wildlife

Duck Creek Conservation Area

Highway 51, nine miles north of Puxico, MO

About 6,300 acres of marsh, bottomland forest, and flooded timber in Stoddard, Bollinger, and Wayne counties, next to the Mingo refuge. The state bought it in 1950 for waterfowl hunting, and the 1,800-acre Pool 1 feeds its marshes. Duck hunting runs on a morning draw; the rest of the year it’s for fishing, birding, and camping at designated sites. Open daily 4 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Where
Highway 51, nine miles north of Puxico, MO
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