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), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser
* Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' ...
located in
Adams County, Mississippi
Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,538. The county seat is Natchez.
The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory. It is named ...
, United States. Briar Landing (also Briers Landing) was its port, located directly on the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...
.
Briers had a post office from 1892 to 1923.
Briers was located on a stretch of the river called "Deer Park Bend". In 1933, the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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constructed the "Glasscock Cutoff", which removed Briers from the contiguous flow of the Mississippi River.
All that remains at the hamlet's former location is an abandoned landing strip for light aircraft.