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Victoria, Bolivar County, Mississippi
Victoria is a ghost town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Victoria was a historic port on the Mississippi River, located south of Lake Concordia, approximately west of Gunnison. A bend in the Mississippi River at the location of the settlement was named "Victoria Bend", and continues to be known thus. Nothing remains of the settlement, as "changes in the river's course doomed the village to extinction". History Victoria had mail delivery from 1840 to 1871. A mail route described in official documents in 1841 included—from south to north—the Mississippi River ports of Vicksburg, Nine Mile Reach, Princeton, Egg Point (west of present-day Avon), Bachelor's Bend (south of Greenville), Bolivar, Victoria, Port Royal, Delta, Commerce, and Memphis. A mail route from Victoria east to Locopolis (now a ghost town west of Cowart) was also documented. The settlement had a tavern in 1840. Harriet Beecher Stowe included an advertisement published in the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Town
Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * ''Ghost Town'' (1956 film), an American Western film by Allen H. Miner * ''Ghost Town'' (1988 film), an American horror film by Richard McCarthy (as Richard Governor) * ''Ghost Town'' (2008 film), an American fantasy comedy film by David Koepp * ''Ghost Town'', a 2008 TV film featuring Billy Drago * '' Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns'', a 2005–2006 British paranormal reality television series * "Ghost Town" (''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''), a 2009 TV episode Literature * ''Ghost Town'' (''Lucky Luke'') or ''La Ville fantôme'', a 1965 ''Lucky Luke'' comic *''Ghost Town'', a Beacon Street Girls novel by Annie Bryant *''Ghost Town'', a 1998 novel by Robert Coover *''Ghosttown'', a 2007 novel by Douglas Anne Munson Music * Ghost Town (band), an American electronic band * ''Ghost Town'', a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 34,400 at the 2010 census. It is located in the area of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta. History Early history This area was occupied by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. When the French explored here, they encountered the historic Natchez people. As part of their colony known as '' La Louisiane'', the French established a settlement at what became Natchez, Mississippi. Other Native American tribes also lived in what is now known as Mississippi. The current city of Greenville is the third in the State to bear the name. The first, (known as Old Greenville) located to the south near Natchez, became defunct soon after the American Revolution, as European-American settlement was then still concentrated in the eastern states. The second Greenville was founded in 1824 by American William W. Blanton, who filed for land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Populated Places In Bolivar County, Mississippi
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin
''A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin'' is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852). First published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views on slavery. Origins After the publication of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', Southerners accused Stowe of misrepresenting slavery. In order to show that she had neither lied about slavery nor exaggerated the plight of enslaved people, she compiled ''A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin''. The book was subtitled "Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work".McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 105. Reception The reaction of Stowe's contemporaries to ''A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin'' was very similar to the reaction to ''Uncle Tom†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel '' Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day. Life and work Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811.McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 112. She was the sixth of 11 children born to outspoken Calvinist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowart, Mississippi
Cowart is an unincorporated community located in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Cowart is located on Mississippi Highway 32 approximately north of Tippo and approximately west of Charleston. The county's former sheriff Clarence Strider—a witness for the defense at the Emmett Till Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery ... murder trial—narrowly missed being shot in the head while he sat in his car at a general store in Cowart in 1957. References Unincorporated communities in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{TallahatchieCountyMS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the County seat, seat of Shelby County, Tennessee, Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the List of municipalities in Tennessee, second-most populous city in Tennessee, after Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville. Memphis is the fifth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, the nation's List of United States cities by population, 28th-largest overall, as well as the largest city bordering the Mississippi River. The Memphis metropolitan area includes West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South (region), Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas, Mississippi and the Missouri Bootheel. One of the more historic and culturally significant cities of the Southern United States, Memphis has a wide variety of landscapes and List of neighborhoods in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commerce, Mississippi
Commerce is a ghost town in Tunica County, Mississippi, United States. Commerce Landing was the town's port. Commerce is located on the Mississippi River, west of Tunica Resorts. Once a thriving river port, Commerce today is farmland surrounded by large casinos. Little remains of the original community. History Commerce Landing is one of two hypothesized locations where Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto may have crossed the Mississippi River (the other is Friars Point, Mississippi). Archeological sites at Commerce have dated to around 1541, and three archeological sites near Commerce have been found to contain Late Mississippian ceramics, which corresponds to records left by the Spanish describing three Quizquiz Indian villages they encountered near the Mississippi River. During the 1820s, both Commerce and Mound City, Arkansas were considered commercial rivals of Memphis, Tennessee, and by 1839, Commerce had a larger population than Memphis (located north on the Mississip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta, Mississippi
Delta is a ghost town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving port on the Mississippi River, Delta today is covered by farmland and a portion of the Mississippi Levee. Nothing remains of the original settlement. History The county seat was moved from Port Royal Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping an ... to Delta in 1842. In 1844, Delta was surveyed and laid off into lots. The town had a population of about 700, and was a busy steamboat port. Delta incorporated in 1848. That same year, the river flooded the town, forcing many residents to relocate to nearby Friars Point. The county seat was moved to Friars Point in 1850. A post office operated under the name Delta from 1840 to 1890. By 1890, nothing remained of Delta. References {{authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Royal, Mississippi
Port Royal is a ghost town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. Once a busy port on the Mississippi River, Port Royal today is covered by wetland and a portion of the Mississippi Levee. Nothing remains of the original settlement. History Port Royal is the oldest town in Coahoma County, with land sales recorded prior to 1836. At that time, the Mississippi River curved east around "Horseshoe Bend", with Port Royal located at the east end of the bend. The town may have originally been called "Powhatan", and its name was likely changed by William J. Oldham, an early settler—born in Port Royal, South Carolina—who owned land on the south bank of Horseshoe Bend. In 1836, the newly created Coahoma County government (called the "Board of Police") designated Port Royal as its first county seat. Port Royal was the largest and busiest town in Coahoma County, with a landing for steamboats and a few small trading stores and cabins. John Clark, the founder of Clarksdal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivar, Mississippi
Bolivar is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Bolivar was once the county seat, and Bolivar Landing was its port on the Mississippi River. Now permanently cut off from the river, Bolivar is a quiescent residential hamlet, while Bolivar Landing, immediately north and across the immense Mississippi Levee, is a cottage community on Lake Whittington. It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 39. History When Bolivar County was established in 1836, the first county seat was located at Bolivar. William Vick sold of land to the county for $800, and it was then named Bolivar. The land was surveyed by B.M. Hines, who laid out the courthouse square, with town lots around it which were advertised for sale. An order was passed by the Board of Police (later called "supervisors") in 1840 to build a one-room courthouse at a cost of $595. In 1844, the Board of Police ordered that the coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avon, Mississippi
Avon is an unincorporated community located along Highway 1 in southwestern Washington County, Mississippi Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,137. Its county seat is Greenville. The county is named in honor of the first President of the United States, George Washingt ..., USA. it has a post office, with the ZIP code 38723. References External links * Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Mississippi[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
