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Black Hawk, also spelled Blackhawk, is an unincorporated community located in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Greenwood on Mississippi Highway 430 and approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Acona. Black Hawk is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
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Carroll County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,998. [1] Its county seats are Carrollton and Vaiden. [2] The county is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, [3] the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Black Hawk, a former passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Black Hawk (steamboat) , a steamboat built around 1850 and operated in California and Oregon Blackhawk (automobile) , an automobile manufactured in 1929 and 1930 by the Stutz Motor Car Company in Indianapolis
Near the mouth of the Bad Axe River, on August 1, 1832, Black Hawk and Winnebago prophet and fellow British Band leader White Cloud advised the band against wasting time building rafts to cross the Mississippi River, because the U.S. forces were closing in, urging them instead to flee northward and seek refuge among the Ho-Chunk. However, most ...
Land in Mississippi was river bottomland rich in organic matter— "the Mississippi and Yazoo, the Tombigbee, Big Black, and the Pearl covered an area of over one-sixth of the entire state and offered unrivalled soil" [5] —and this land was primarily used to grow the highly valuable cash crop cotton produced with the labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved American laborers of African ...