Mont Helena may have had as many as three mounds in the past. The remaining mound is 26 feet high, but its original dimensions were even more impressive. Roughly 10 feet of mound fill was removed around 1900 prior to the construction of the Colonial . . . — — Map (db m170694) HM
Of the original four mounds located at the Cary site, only Mound A survives. Located on the south side of Deer Creek, the mound was built on top of a midden deposit containing ceramic and animal bone artifacts as well as a fragment of a stone . . . — — Map (db m157616) HM
There were several Indian mounds constructed (1200-1400 A.D.) in Cary at the time of the Civil War. During the Steele's Bayou Expedition, the area was flooded from the overflow of the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. These mounds provided high and dry . . . — — Map (db m160876) HM
Rear Admiral David D. Porter’s flotilla arrived here late in the afternoon of March 16, 1863, after working all day to clear overhanging branches and uproot huge cypress trees in the 3 ½ miles from Steele’s Bayou though Black Bayou to Deer . . . — — Map (db m154539) HM
Union gunboats under Admiral David Porter reached this site on March 16, 1863, in Steele's Bayou Expedition. Sherman came here, then moved north to protect boats from the Confederate forces. — — Map (db m154540) HM
The Carter site consists of two earthen mounds separated by
a plaza area. Mound A was built in at least two stages and is
13 feet tall. Mound Bis a burial mound and stands at just
under seven feet tall. Both mounds are roughly six feet . . . — — Map (db m157608) HM
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was one of the foremost artists in blues history. In the late 1940s and 1950s he led the way in transforming traditional Delta blues into the electric Chicago blues style that paved the road to . . . — — Map (db m80120) HM
Rolling Fork Mounds consisted of three earthen mounds, all
of which have sustained significant damage since they were
first described in 1926. At that time, Mound A was 38 feet
tall, Mound B was 20 feet tall, and Mound C was less than
two feet. . . . — — Map (db m157533) HM
Sharkey County, formed in 1876,
was named for Mississippi Gov.
William L. Sharkey, who served in
1865. Designed by architect
William Sharkey Hull, this three-
story courthouse was built in 1902
and includes elements of Beaux
Arts, . . . — — Map (db m157535) HM
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt came to Smedes, 2 mi. S, in 1902 to hunt. On Nov. 14, Roosevelt refused to shoot a captive bear. Cartoons of the event are though to have led to the creation of the "Teddy Bear." — — Map (db m80119) HM
It all happened in Sharkey County!
While hunting in the Mississippi Delta in 1902, President Roosevelt could not bring himself to kill a bear that had been tied up for him to shoot. He felt doing so would be unsportsmanlike. Word of this . . . — — Map (db m157613) HM
Cabins once lined roadsides in the Delta Known as shotgun shacks, these houses were common in the Mississippi Delta near agricultural fields. Each home featured three to five rooms with no hallway
just a series of doors leading from room to . . . — — Map (db m157609) HM
