Rolling Fork Mounds
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...
- mississippi
- native americans
- mounds
Sir Arthur Quiller Couch Lived here - on a house in Fowey
Muddy Waters
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...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
- entertainer
Prince McCoy
Side APrince McCoy (1882-1968), a prominent early 20th century Greenville musician, played a pivotal yet long unacknowledged role in blues history. At a dance in Cleveland, Mississippi, an...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
- entertainer
Carter Mounds
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...
- mississippi
- native americans
- mounds
Malden Spanish- American War Memorial
- malden
- spanish-american war
- memorial
General John Bell Hood, CSA
John Bell Hood was born June 29, 1831, in Owingsville, Kentucky, and was reared in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. After graduating from West Point in 1853, he served in the elite U.S. 2nd Cavalry...
- louisiana
- civil war
- new orleans
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...
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- 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
Mt. Horeb M.B. Church
Established in 1868 by six former slaves, Mt. Horeb Missionary Baptist Church completed the first African- American church building in Greenville in 1868. An important part of this city's...
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- religion
- church
- african american
Harriet Blanton Theobald Park
Named for an early settler of Greenville who donated 47½ acres to help rebuild the after the Civil War. In 1878, nearly 300 yellow fever victims were buried here in the original city cemetery...
- mississippi
- park
Remnant of Original Greenville - Lake Village Bridge
This relic is all that remains of Mississippi's River Bridge that was dedicated to B.G. Humphreys, completed June 16, 1940, and opened to traffic September 17, 1940. A two lane thru-truss...
- mississippi
- bridge
- greenville