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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2646_washburns-quarters_Memphis-TN.html
Maj. Gen. C.C. Washburn, Federal commander in Memphis, lived in a house which stood here at the time of Gen. Forrest's dawn raid. He escaped capture by decamping through the back door in his night clothes. His uniform and sword seized by raiders u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262F_claiborne-landing-carville-louisiana-belle-grove_Memphis-TN.html
A.Claiborne Landing
Mile 188.3 AHP
This was the plantation home of William C.C. Claiborne. At the age of 21, Claiborne helped write a constitution for the new state of Tennessee and five years later President Jefferson appointed him Governor of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262E_mulatto-bend-springfield-bend-profit-island_Memphis-TN.html
A. Mulatto Bend
Mile 236.6 AHP
A group of Mulatto Freedmen of French dissent established a settlement here in the early 1800's and the river pilots named it Mulatto Bend. Wilkinson Point at the crook of the bend suffered a major washout in 195…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262D_fort-adams-mississippi-old-river-control-structure-homochitto-cutoff_Memphis-TN.html
A. Fort Adams, Mississippi
Mile 311.9 AHP
This high bluff was first named Davion's Rock, for a French priest who lived here with the Tunica Indians in the early 1700's. It was later called Loftus Heights, for a British Major Loftus whose exped…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262C_the-atchafalaya-problem_Memphis-TN.html
The Threat of drastic change in the Lower Mississippi River channel at the Old River Junction has been the most serious problems in the modern history of the river. The Mississippi once curved westward in this area through Turnbill's Bend. In 1831…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262B_memphis-tennessee-mud-island_Memphis-TN.html
Memphis, TennesseeIts central location on the Mississippi River has been the basis for Memphis's growth. The fourth Chickasaw Bluff was long occupied by the Native American tribe for whom it was named. France and later Spain built forts there but …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262A_arkansas-white-rivers_Memphis-TN.html
The Mississippi's southernmost major tributary, the Arkansas, is born from melting snow on the eastern slopes of the Continental Divide near Leadville, Colorado. Its 1,450-mile course drains 160,500 square miles in five states.
Despite dramatic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261L_plaquemine-louisiana-manchac-bend_Memphis-TN.html
A) Plaquemine, Louisiana
Mile 208.2 AHP
The settlement that arose at the mouth of the Bayou Plaquemine took as its name the Native American word for the fruit, persimmon. Early settlers traveled on the bayou, but as the Mississippi River roun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261K_baton-rouge-louisiana_Memphis-TN.html
Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana... going navigation on the Mississippi River. ...gas fields in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma... a major processing and transportation... industry.
The French built the first fort here in 1819. They nam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261J_white-hall-plantation-union-louisiana-point-houmas_Memphis-TN.html
A) White Hall Plantation
Mile 166.0 AHP
One of the most effective Confederate gun batteries on the river was located near White Hall. When it was bombarded by the Union Ironclad, Monongahela in 1863, the vessel's commander was killed and a you…