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Historical Markers in Issaquena County, Mississippi

 
Clickable Map of Issaquena County, Mississippi and Immediately Adjacent Jurisdictions image/svg+xml 2019-10-06 U.S. Census Bureau, Abe.suleiman; Lokal_Profil; HMdb.org; J.J.Prats/dc:title> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usa_counties_large.svg Issaquena County, MS (4) Sharkey County, MS (13) Warren County, MS (548) Washington County, MS (72) Yazoo County, MS (24) Chicot County, AR (17) East Carroll Parish, LA (13)  IssaquenaCounty(4) Issaquena County (4)  SharkeyCounty(13) Sharkey County (13)  WarrenCounty(548) Warren County (548)  WashingtonCounty(72) Washington County (72)  YazooCounty(24) Yazoo County (24)  ChicotCountyArkansas(17) Chicot County (17)  EastCarrollParishLouisiana(13) East Carroll Parish (13)
Mayersville is the county seat for Issaquena County
Adjacent to Issaquena County, Mississippi
      Sharkey County (13)  
      Warren County (548)  
      Washington County (72)  
      Yazoo County (24)  
      Chicot County, Arkansas (17)  
      East Carroll Parish, Louisiana (13)  
 
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1 Mississippi, Issaquena County, Grace — Grace Mounds — Mississippi Mound Trail —
On Grace Road, 0.3 miles west of State Highway 1, on the left when traveling south.
Of the five original mounds located on the eastern bank of Steele Bayou, only Mounds A and B survive. At 40 and 16 feet respectively, Mounds A and B were built using a technique called basket loading. Archaeological excavations found evidence of at . . . Map (db m154734) HM
2 Mississippi, Issaquena County, Mayersville — 22 — Unita Blackwell — Mississippi Freedom Trail —
On Court Street east of Court Street, on the right when traveling east.
Unita Blackwell, born in a sharecropper's shack in Lula, Mississippi, on March 18, 1933, became a SNCC activist in 1964 and represented the MFDP at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She was instrumental in Head Start, MACE, and the . . . Map (db m235171) HM
3 Mississippi, Issaquena County, Valley Park — Aden Mounds — Mississippi Mound Trail —
On Deer Creek Road, 1.6 miles east of U.S. 61, on the right when traveling east.
Aden Mounds consists of three mounds surrounding a rectangular plaza, the fourth side open to Jeff Davis Bayou. Mounds A and B are rectangular platform mounds nearly 10 feet in height. Mound C is no longer visible, but archaeologists discovered its . . . Map (db m154464) HM
4 Mississippi, Issaquena County, Vicksburg — 1167 — Steele's Bayou Expedition
On State Highway 465, 2 miles east of Section Road, on the left when traveling east.
The Steele's Bayou Expedition (March 14-27, 1863) was one of several Union efforts to bypass Confederate defenses at Snyder's Bluff by sending amphibious forces through the Delta's waterways. While the expedition ultimately failed in its objective, . . . Map (db m187815) HM
 
 
  
 
 
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Apr. 18, 2024