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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM265W_natchez-mississippi_Memphis-TN.html
French settlers arrived in the early 1700's establishing Fort Rosalie and a small plantation. The Natchez attacked in 1729, killing most of the settlers and French retaliation virtually destroyed the tribe. The British arrived in 1763, but Spain t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM265V_natchez-island-vidalia-louisiana-giles-cutoff_Memphis-TN.html
A. Natchez Island
Mile 357.5 AHP
Now joined to the Louisiana shore, this island was the site of one of the last steamboat accidents on the Mississippi River. The Tennessee Belle was a 38-year veteran of the river trade when she caught fire and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM265U_waterproof-louisiana-ashland-landing-mississippi_Memphis-TN.html
A. Waterproof, Louisiana
Mile 381.0 AHP
This small community was moved four times due to floods and the towns caving banks. The original location is now said to lie in the Mississippi River. During its third washout, a newspaper reported the en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2646_washburns-quarters_Memphis-TN.html
Maj. Gen. C.C. Washburn, Federal commander in Memphis, lived in a house which stood here at the time of Gen. Forrest's dawn raid. He escaped capture by decamping through the back door in his night clothes. His uniform and sword seized by raiders u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262F_claiborne-landing-carville-louisiana-belle-grove_Memphis-TN.html
A.Claiborne Landing
Mile 188.3 AHP
This was the plantation home of William C.C. Claiborne. At the age of 21, Claiborne helped write a constitution for the new state of Tennessee and five years later President Jefferson appointed him Governor of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262E_mulatto-bend-springfield-bend-profit-island_Memphis-TN.html
A. Mulatto Bend
Mile 236.6 AHP
A group of Mulatto Freedmen of French dissent established a settlement here in the early 1800's and the river pilots named it Mulatto Bend. Wilkinson Point at the crook of the bend suffered a major washout in 195…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262D_fort-adams-mississippi-old-river-control-structure-homochitto-cutoff_Memphis-TN.html
A. Fort Adams, Mississippi
Mile 311.9 AHP
This high bluff was first named Davion's Rock, for a French priest who lived here with the Tunica Indians in the early 1700's. It was later called Loftus Heights, for a British Major Loftus whose exped…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262C_the-atchafalaya-problem_Memphis-TN.html
The Threat of drastic change in the Lower Mississippi River channel at the Old River Junction has been the most serious problems in the modern history of the river. The Mississippi once curved westward in this area through Turnbill's Bend. In 1831…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262B_memphis-tennessee-mud-island_Memphis-TN.html
Memphis, TennesseeIts central location on the Mississippi River has been the basis for Memphis's growth. The fourth Chickasaw Bluff was long occupied by the Native American tribe for whom it was named. France and later Spain built forts there but …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262A_arkansas-white-rivers_Memphis-TN.html
The Mississippi's southernmost major tributary, the Arkansas, is born from melting snow on the eastern slopes of the Continental Divide near Leadville, Colorado. Its 1,450-mile course drains 160,500 square miles in five states.
Despite dramatic…