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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YIY_bayou-pierre-mounds_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Of the three original mounds overlooking Bayou Pierre, only one remains. A pyramidal platform, Mound A is currently 16 feet tall. Excavations indicate that Native Americans built the mound in multiple stages during the Coles Creek Period, from AD …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U0M_rocky-springs-historical_Hermanville-MS.html
The once active spring provided a natural stopping place for travelers on the Natchez Trace and helped establish and sustain the rural community of Rocky Springs. The 25 square mile town, which included a post rider relay station prospered for app…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0Z_federals-occupy-rocky-springs_Hermanville-MS.html
After U.S. Grant had planned much of his campaign at Mrs. Bagnell's, four miles west, he arrived at Rocky Springs on May 7. He remained until May 10, allowing the XV Corps to cross the Mississippi and rejoin the army. McClernand's XIII Corps arriv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0Y_the-old-natchez-trace_Hermanville-MS.html
This is the Natchez Trace. For many years it served man well, but as with many things when its usefulness passed, it was abandoned. Over the years, this time-worn path has been a silent witness to honor and dishonor. It bears the prints of coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N00_mangum-mound_Hermanville-MS.html
Excavation of this site tells us much about the people of the late prehistoric periods. The Plaquemine culture included the ancestors of the modern tribes of Mississippi and Louisiana. It was a society with elaborate agriculturally oriented religi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZY_owens-creek_MS.html
The sounds of a busy woodland stream and the quiet murmur of a lazy waterfall have long been stilled here. Only after a heavy rainfall does water fill the stream and set the waterfall singing.      Over the years the water table has dropped …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZO_sunken-trace_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Preserved here is a portion of the deeply eroded or "sunken" Old Trace. Hardships of journeying on the Old Trace included heat, mosquitoes, poor food, hard beds (if any), disease, swollen rivers, and sucking swamps.      Take 5 min…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C62_windsor-ruins_Parker-MS.html
Smith Coffee Daniell II, a successful cotton planter, completed construction of Windsor in 1861. Daniell owned 21,000 acres of plantation land in Louisiana and Mississippi. Ironically, he died in April 1861, only weeks after completing his mansion…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C28_bayou-pierre-presbyterian-church_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Following the arrival of Presbyterian missionaries in 1801, Joseph Bullen and James Smylie organized the Bayou Pierre Church at this site in 1807. After part of the congregation formed the Bethel Church southwest of here in 1824, the remaining mem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM163S_grindstone-ford_Port-Gibson-MS.html
This ford marked the beginning of the wilderness of the Choctaw nation and the end of the old Natchez District. Nearby Fort Deposit was a supply depot for troops clearing the Trace in 1801-02, and troops were assembled here during the Burr conspir…
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