Once a very important port on the Mississippi River, it is now considered a ghost town having been forsaken by both railroads and the river. It’s history can be traced to the early 18th Century when it was originally known as Petit Gulf, in contrast to Grand Gulf which is situated a little further upstream.1 [...]
The ruins of the Windsor Plantation. Once considered one of the most stately mansions on the Mississippi River, if not the entire South. So majestic that it even inspired Walt Whitman to write about it.1 Built between 1859-1861 by Smith Coffee Daniell II, it was the main house of a 2600 acre plantation built on [...]
A ceremonial mound built and occupied by the ancestors of the Natchez tribe between 1250 and 1600 AD. It is the second largest ceremonial earthwork in the United States.1 The largest being the Monk’s Mound at Cahokia in Illinois.2
http://www.nps.gov/archeology/feature/emerald.htm [↩]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia#Monk.27s_Mound [↩]
A boat landing on the Mississippi River that was the site of Grant’s amphibious landing in 1863 during the second Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War. The landing, involving over 24,000 troops, was the largest amphibious operation in American military history until World War II.1
http://www.nps.gov/archive/vick/camptrail/sites/Mississippi-sites/BruinsburgMS.htm [↩]
David Holmes was born at Mary Ann Furnace, near Hanover, York County, Pa. on March 10, 1769 and was raised near Winchester, VA. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in Virginia, he served from 1797 until 1809 when he was appointed as the governor of the Mississippi Territory.
