What is a Shotgun Shack?
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...
- mississippi
- sharecroppers
- structures
The Story of Teddy Bears
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...
- mississippi
- theodore roosevelt
- teddy bear
- toys
The Casualties at Ditch Bayou June 6, 1864
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...
- arkansas
- civil war
- lake village
- chicot county
The Battle at Ditch Bayou
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...
- arkansas
- civil war
- lake village
- chicot county
Snyder's Bluff
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...
- mississippi
- civil war
Shoreline Repast
Plaque by artist Paul Druecke Submitted by @DasDing_Dong
Featherston - Magruder House
In 1831, Richard Featherston, a teacher, built a single story structure here and opened Vicksburg's first school. Dr. Alex Magruder expanded the house to two stories in 1850 and used the original...
- mississippi
- architecture
Haynes Bluff Mound
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...
- mississippi
- native americans
- mounds
French Fort St. Pierre
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....
- mississippi
- native american
- colonial period
- french
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
The Divine Word Missionaries began school for black youth here in 1913. In 1920, led by Fr. Matthew Christmann, they founded St. Augustine Seminary, first seminary in U. S. for...
- mississippi
- religion
- catholic
- church
- african american