Entries Containing All of the Phrases «wilkinson county» AND «mississippi»

By Brian Scott, January 23, 2007

Jefferson Davis's Flight Marker

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1 ► South Carolina, Abbeville County, Abbeville — 1-7 — Burt-Stark House / Jefferson Davis’s Flight —

Burt-Stark House When Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled south, trying to reach and rally the remnants of his army. On May 2, he spent the night at the home of Col. Armistead . . . — — Map (db m10564) HM

2 ► South Carolina, Abbeville County, Abbeville — The Last Meeting of the Confederate States Cabinet —

This tablet was placed here to commemorate the last meeting of the Confederate States Cabinet which was held in the Burt House near by directly in front of this stone. The following cabinet members were present: Jefferson Davis, President . . . — — Map (db m73949) HM

3 ► South Carolina, Laurens County, Joanna — 30-1 — Jefferson Davis Flight — Reported missing

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy on his flight from Richmond, Va. with his Cabinet and other high ranking officers spent the night of April 30, 1865 at the house 1½ miles west, then the home of Lafayette Young. Arriving there . . . — — Map (db m55837) HM

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4 ► Mississippi, Jefferson County, Fayette — Richard Curtis, Jr. — May 28, 1755 - October 28, 1811 — Mississippi's First Baptist Preacher —

Curtis migrated to Cole's Creek in Natchez District from South Carolina in 1780 and encountered Indian attacks, disease and inclement weather. Despite constant obstacles and harassment from the Spanish authorities, in 1791, he helped establish the . . . — — Map (db m105823) HM

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5 ► Texas, Fort Bend County, Richmond — 12960 — John Foster —

John Foster was born on May 25, 1757, in South Carolina to William James and Mary (Hill) Foster. Family history indicates he may have served with his brothers in Charleston against a British attack in June 1776. He married Rachel (Gibson), and . . . — — Map (db m156722) HM

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6 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis — 23 — Fort Adams, Mississippi/Old River Control Structure/Homochitto Cutoff — Mississippi River Walk —

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 . . . — — Map (db m115004) HM

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7 ► Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish, Jackson — Centenary State Historic Site — "The East Wing Dormitory" —

The East Wing dormitory was the first of the campus structures to be built. Built between 1832 and 1833, the building was designed by Captain Delafield, and constructed by Alexander Smith of Wilkinson County, Mississippi at a cost of $14,000.00 . . . — — Map (db m108617) HM

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8 ► Mississippi, Wilkinson County, Centreville — Anne Moody — Mississippi Writers Trail —

A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement, Anne Moody was born in 1940 in Wilkinson County near Centreville. In her classic 1968 memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, she lucidly and eloquently articulates what it was like to grow up in . . . — — Map (db m193106) HM

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