Moores Bluff is a

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Lowndes County, Mississippi Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 58,879. Its county seat is Columbus. The county is named for U.S. Congressman William Jones Lowndes. ...

, United States. Located on the west bank of the

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, the town was an important trading point for cotton during the early history of the county, and shipping receipts have been located from the early 1840s. The road leading to Moores Bluff from the west was known as the "Cotton Road", and at times "was thronged with wagons loaded with cotton and plantation supplies". Two large brick warehouses were located there, and thousands of bales of cotton were shipped annually by boat from Moores Bluff. The construction of the

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in the 1890s greatly reduced shipping along the river, and the town became extinct. Moores Bluff is today located on an uninhabited and inaccessible point in the river.

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