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A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History (1980) Krane, Dale and Stephen D. Shaffer. Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists (1992), government textbook; Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change (2nd ed. 1980), high school textbook; McLemore ...
An early Federal style plantation that was plantation was established by Robert Semple in 1808. Ford House: Sandy Hook: 1809 House It is one of the oldest homes in the Pearl River Valley and was built by Reverend John Ford. It was the site of two early Mississippi Methodist Conferences (1814 and 1818).
According to a history published in 1906, the heyday of the settlement began about 15 years after the founding: "The period between 1820 and 1830 might be called the romance days of the Scotch settlement. Everything was young, bright, fresh, and full of life and vigor. The country abounded in game and the streams in fish.
As early as the 1830s, together with other planters Isaac Ross (1760–1838), Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), John Ker (1789–1850), and educator/minister Jeremiah Chamberlain (1794–1851), McGehee co-founded the Mississippi Colonization Society, whose goal was to send freedmen and free people of color to Liberia in West Africa.
In the early 1700s European settlement in the United States was still sparse and mostly near the coasts with the Indian peoples in control of the very large hinterland. [37] In 1700, the white and slave population of the whole United States is estimated at only 275,000 and most of that was concentrated in the northeastern United States, not the ...
Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin, drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s. According to archaeological excavations, the area has been continuously inhabited by various cultures of indigenous peoples since the 8th century A.D. [1] The original site of Natchez was developed as a major village with ceremonial platform mounds, built by people of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture ...
[8] [9] The settlement of St. Louis was established at a site south of the confluence on the west bank of the Mississippi on February 15, 1764, by Chouteau and a group of about 30 men. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Laclede arrived at the site by mid-1764 and provided detailed plans for the village, including a street grid and market area.
Robinson Road connected the cities of Columbus, Jackson, and Natchez, and is the second oldest road in Mississippi. [4] Government workers were employed at Agency as early as 1813, [2] and Colonel Ward was in charge. Ward's house fronted the north side of Robinson Road, and consisted of two large rooms made of hewn logs.