The first suggestion was "Yazoo" (in Mississippi), which despite fitting the melody perfectly, Foster rejected.
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation is now upgrading the highway between Vicksburg and Leland to four lanes, beginning with replacement of the Yazoo River bridge at Redwood in Warren County.