Garcia's Grocery, Clermont Harbor, MS. ms history

Garcia's Grocery, Clermont Harbor, MS.

True Biloxi, Mississippi Fisherman; Vander Dale Nelson on the oldest wooden Shrimp Boat " The Lady Vera " re-threadding a Shrimp net sitting on the front of the Boat on a wooden stool....

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Meridian MS

bNatchez was incorporated on March 10, 1803. It is the oldest municipality in Mississippi, and is the oldest continuous settlement on the Mississippi River.

Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and most important settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley. After the French lost the French and Indian War, they ceded Natchez and near territory to Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763.

Natchez became part of the United States with the establishment of the Mississippi Territory in 1798 and served as the first capital for the new State of Mississippi in 1817.

Natchez is recognized particularly for its role in the development of the Old Southwest during the first half of the 19th century. It was the southern terminus of the historic Natchez Trace, with the northern terminus being Nashville, Tennessee. After unloading their cargoes in Natchez, many pilots and crew of flatboats and keelboats traveled by the Trace overland to their homes in the Ohio River Valley.

In the decades preceding the Civil War, Natchez was by far the most prevalent slave trading city in Mississippi, and second in the United States only to New Orleans.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the city attracted wealthy planters as residents, who built mansions to fit their ambitions. Their plantations were vast tracts of land in the surrounding lowlands along the river fronts of Mississippi and Louisiana, where they grew large commodity crops of cotton and sugarcane. Natchez became the principal port from which these crops were exported, both upriver to Northern cities and downriver to New Orleans, where much of the cargo was exported to Europe. Many of the mansions built by planters before 1860 survive today and form a major part of the city's architecture and identity.

Before the Civil War, Natchez had the most millionaires per capita of any city in the United States, making it arguably the wealthiest city in the nation at the time.

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The oldest, continuously ran restaurant in the MS Delta. Opened 1909. My Dad, Bobby Slaton, told me when working with his Uncle starting up the Shipley Donuts downtown Greenville back in the day, they would go down the street to Jim's for breakfast while waiting for the dough to rise. Which was also the first donut shop in to open in MS. In 1959 by Eddie and Jenny McGaugh.

Abandoned tractor and barn in Benton County, MS. Delphus Hicks’ old farm. A large working farm (250 acres) purchased circa 1940 by a black family, which was exceedingly rare at that time. It was an active farm until circa 1974. Mr. Hicks purchased this tractor in 1950 and used it to farm cotton, corn, peanuts, pecans, russet potatoes, sweet potatoes, popcorn, peas, and gardens with a variety of vegetables, i.e.., okra, cabbage, collards, greens, carrots, green peas, tomatoes, and sweet corn and more. With his wife, Gladys and his six sons and four daughters, he raised over 100 head of cattle, 20+ hogs, chickens, turkeys, and guinea fowls. He did amazing work with little mechanization. As he got older, he retired from driving a school bus and farming. These pictures were taken in 2024, by the youngest of the ten children, Cathryn Moore, who lived north for 50 years and retired to Benton County in 2022.