Victoria is a

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, United States. Victoria was a historic port on the

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, 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,

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, Egg Point (west of present-day Avon), Bachelor's Bend (south of Greenville), Bolivar, Victoria,

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, 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.

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included an advertisement published in the ''Jefferson Inquirer'' in 1852 in her book ''

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'':

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD RAN AWAY from my plantation, in Bolivar County, Miss., a negro man named MAY, aged 40 years, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, copper coloured, and very straight; his front teeth are good and stand a little open; stout through the shoulders, and has some scars on his back that show above the skin plain, caused by the whip; he frequently hiccups when eating, if he has not got water handy; he was pursued into Ozark County, Mo., and there left. I will give the above reward for his confinement in jail, so that I can get him. JAMES H. COUSAR, Victoria, Bolivar County, Mississippi.

Stowe added: "delightful master to go back to, this man must be!" A publication listing game and fish resorts in Mississippi published in 1878 wrote:

This county abounds in deer, bears, wild turkeys, ducks, geese, quail, squirrels and other kinds of large and small game. Take Mississippi River Steamer to Bolivar, Victoria or Concordia, thence strike inland. Guides and all necessary information will be found at any of these places.

A road at the former settlement is today called "Victoria Hunting Club Road".

References

External links

Map from 1842
showing the location of Victoria in Mississippi {{authority control Former populated places in Bolivar County, Mississippi Former populated places in Mississippi Mississippi populated places on the Mississippi River