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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJE_the-bernheimer-complex_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Built by Samuel and Jacob, prominent Jewish businessmen, this complex forms an unusual group of consecutively constructed buildings of various architectural styles. This house, built in 1901, replaced an earlier one used by Gen. U.S. Grant as his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJD_bruinsburg_Port-Gibson-MS.html
About 14 miles west at the mouth of Bayou Pierre is the old river port settled by Peter Bryan Bruin in 1788. It was visited by Aaron Burr in 1807. Grant landed there in Vicksburg Campaign of 1863.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJA_site-of-the-hermitage_Port-Gibson-MS.html
W. 2 mi. Built about 1800 by George W. Humphreys, Birthplace of Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (1808-82). Brigadier General, C.S.A. Governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJ9_claiborne-county_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Established on January 27, 1802, by first General Assembly. Claiborne County was the fourth
county organized in the Mississippi Territory. Carved from Jefferson County (formerly Pickering County), of the Old Natchez District, the county was named…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJ7_port-gibson_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Incorporated in 1811, Port Gibson was first settled by Samuel Gibson, who acquired property along Bayou Pierre from the Spanish in 1788. First known as Gibson's Landing. Port Gibson, selected as the Claiborne County seat in 1803, had the state's f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJ6_first-baptist-m-b-church_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Founded in 1867 by freedmen. Moved to this site ca. 1896. Played a vital role in the Civil Rights Movement in Port Gibson. Beginning in 1965, the NAACP held meetings here to promote boycotts of local white merchants, who subsequently filed suit. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YJ4_first-presbyterian-church_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Second oldest Presbyterian Church in Old Southwest. Org. April, 1807, as Bayou Pierre Church. Moved to Port Gibson 1827. Zebulon Butler first resident pastor, 1827-60. Present structure built 1859.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YIY_bayou-pierre-mounds_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Of the three original mounds overlooking Bayou Pierre, only one remains. A pyramidal platform, Mound A is currently 16 feet tall. Excavations indicate that Native Americans built the mound in multiple stages during the Coles Creek Period, from AD …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZO_sunken-trace_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Preserved here is a portion of the deeply eroded or "sunken" Old Trace. Hardships of journeying on the Old Trace included heat, mosquitoes, poor food, hard beds (if any), disease, swollen rivers, and sucking swamps.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C28_bayou-pierre-presbyterian-church_Port-Gibson-MS.html
Following the arrival of Presbyterian missionaries in 1801, Joseph Bullen and James Smylie organized the Bayou Pierre Church at this site in 1807. After part of the congregation formed the Bethel Church southwest of here in 1824, the remaining mem…