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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 ...
1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory. The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by both upper and lower chambers (the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill, in the federal national capital city ...
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 ...
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.
The district was also the first area to be opened to white settlement in what would become the state of Alabama, outside of the French colonial outpost of Mobile on the Gulf Coast. [1] The Tombigbee and Natchez districts (also originally a French settlement) were the only areas populated by whites in the Mississippi Territory when it was formed ...
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.