Near Shannon in Pontotoc County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)

Chickasaw Council House

Photographed by Duane Hall, June 4, 2015

1. Chickasaw Council House Marker

Inscription. Westerly on the Natchez Trace stood an Indian village “Pontatock” with its council house which, in the 1820's, became the “Capitol” of the Chickasaw Nation.
The chiefs and headmen met there to sign treaties or to establish tribal laws and policies. Each summer two or three thousand Indians camped nearby to receive the annual payments for lands they had sold to our Federal Government.
After the treaty of 1832, the last land was surrendered. The Council House disappeared, but its memory remains here in the names of a Mississippi County and town and went west with the Chickasaws as a county and village in Oklahoma.

Erected by National Park Service.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Indigenous Peoples and Communities • Roads & Vehicles. In addition, it is included in the Natchez Trace series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1832.

Location. 34° 8.343′ N, 88° 49.618′ W. Marker is near Shannon, Mississippi, in Pontotoc County. It is on Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 251.1), half a mile south of Pontocola Road (County Road 506), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Shannon MS 38868, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the North Mississippi Hills. It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers

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are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Black Belt (approx. 0.8 miles away); Tockshish (approx. 1½ miles away); Monroe Mission Station (approx. 5.3 miles away); Site of Pontotoc Creek Treaty (approx. 5.7 miles away); a different marker also named Site of Pontotoc Creek Treaty (approx. 5.8 miles away); Zion School (approx. 5.9 miles away); Battle of Okolona (approx. 6 miles away); Verona (approx. 7.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Shannon.

Also see . . . Natchez Trace. Official National Park Service website. (Submitted on June 29, 2015.)

Photographed by Duane Hall, June 4, 2015

2. Chickasaw Council House Marker

Chickasaw Council House Turnout on Natchez Trace Parkway image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane Hall, June 4, 2015

3. Chickasaw Council House Turnout on Natchez Trace Parkway

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on June 29, 2015, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas. This page has been viewed 877 times since then and 37 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on June 29, 2015, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas.