The Carter site consists of two earthen mounds separated by a plaza area. Mound A was built in at least two stages and is 13 feet tall. Mound Bis a burial mound and stands at just under seven...
Did you know the Teddy Bear was named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt? It all happened in Sharkey County!While hunting in the Mississippi Delta in 1902, President Roosevelt could not...
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was one of the foremost artists in blues history. In the late 1940s and 1950s he led the way in transforming traditional Delta blues into the...
Sharkey County, formed in 1876, was named for Mississippi Gov. William L. Sharkey, who served in 1865. Designed by architect William Sharkey Hull, this three- story courthouse was built in 1902...
Cabins once lined roadsides in the DeltaKnown as shotgun shacks, these houses were common in the Mississippi Delta near agricultural fields. Each home featured three to five rooms with no...
Rolling Fork Mounds consisted of three earthen mounds, all of which have sustained significant damage since they were first described in 1926. At that time, Mound A was 38 feet tall, Mound B...
Of the original four mounds located at the Cary site, only Mound A survives. Located on the south side of Deer Creek, the mound was built on top of a midden deposit containing ceramic and...
Contemplative family occupied home plantation says the antebellum period. Originally built in a dogtrot style, the house had front and back porches that were social gathering places, like most...
Many twentieth century commercial gins had a separate building, or office, for weighing cotton and record keeping. Every customers wagon was weighed upon entering (full of cotton) and when leaving...
The earliest farming implements used in Louisiana were simple tools. Before tractors and other mechanized farm equipment changed the way people picked cotton, workers spent long hours in the...
The four most common plows in the history of Southern agriculture are the walking plow, the sulky plow, the gang plow, and the tractor plow. The walking plow, usually pulled by mules, was guided...
Galloway Place, also known as Hodgkins Place, is a well-preserved conical mound on the eastern edge of Macon Ridge. It is 10 feet tall and 80 feet in diameter. Soil studied and artifacts...
Site of Mount Carmel, the first organized community in the Eudora area. John Booth donated land for a Presbyterian Church and a seminary for girls. Rev. Benjamin Shaw was director and...
Site of the Eudora settlement’s first business district. After a ferry across Bayou Macon was established in 1846, Cariola Landing was accessible to Arkansas Communities to the west...
GATEMOUTH MOORE Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore was one of America's most popular blues singers in the 1940s before becoming a renowned religios leader, radio announcer, and gospel singer....
Once part of a complex of at least four Indian mounds, this 30 foot high mound was built in several stages from the 1300s to the 1600s. A thatched temple or chief's lodge stood atop...
Throughout the winter of 1862-63, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant orchestrated a series of Bayou Expeditions aimed at capturing Vicksburg. The Steele's Bayou Expedition was the most daring of...
Built in 1719 to protect French colonists and serve as a trading place with Native Americans, Fort St. Pierre was rebuilt with a substantial palisade and moat in 1722 by Lt. Dumont de Montigny....
It is the morning of June 6, 1864. Rain has created a muddy mess. To your left are four cannon. To your right are 600 cavalrymen and two more cannon. These men served under Confederate Colonel...
The battle at Ditch Bayou was a Federal effort to drive Confederates away from the Mississippi River, where the Confederates had been harassing Union shipping. Even though the Confederates...