Category: Stories of the Delta
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The Burning of the Kate Adams 1
Taken from the St. Paul Daily Globe on December 24, 1888 Memphis, TN December 23: The elegant passenger steamer Kate Adams, running as a semi-weekly packet, between Memphis and Arkansas City, burned this morning near Commerce, Mississippi 40 miles south of this city. She was en route to Memphis and had about 200 people aboard,…
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The Glory of the Past, Steam Boat Day
Taken from the Historical Records Project #2224, Mrs. Hattie Johnson, Mrs. Louise Richards, Mrs E.H. Craves: circa 1939, I have added in some additions and corrections. Since Tunica County has a frontage of about sixty five miles on the Mississippi River, steamboats are a big part of her history. As many our older citizens recall…
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William Thomas Townsend, jr. of Rich
Sometime after the Civil War, Captain Joseph Franklin Townsend and Colonel Hemingway bought a plantation overlooking the Yazoo Pass which they named “Bonita.” Using convict labor, the men cultivated Bonita Egyptian cotton, which was popular near the end of the 19th Century. Townsend built a two story log home which later burned to the ground,…
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Front Street Block B, Lula, MS
This was the site of the Keesee Building. It was a white stucco building of Spanish design with red tiles running along the front top porch. There were round windows along the side. Two windows on either side of a screened in door were at the front. The Keesee Building operated as the farm…
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Flood of 1935
In 1935, my Grandparents were living in the small community of Tibbs out from Sledge, when the worst flooding to hit that area ever occurred. My Grandmother told me they went to sleep that night and awoke the next morning hearing a bumping noise under the house. They thought it was an animal so my…
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Stories about the Lula Depot and railroads. Send in and I will add your post to this page. Your Name will appear first.
Buddy Dean. 9/21/2018 There was a guy who stayed around the depot all the time named Shine. I would see him sleeping under the platform where cotton was loaded. Lee Horace Bass took care of him, but he just basically stayed around town doing odd jobs. One time I let Shine wash my car when…
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The Railroad at Lula
Lula was located at mile post 56.4 from Memphis.
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Jim and Ida Dean, Part of My Story
Woodlawn is a large cemetery in Sumner, Mississippi. In order to reach it, you have to turn by Cassidy Bayou. If you are coming from the square, take a right on the street running behind the bank. It will take you to Woodlawn. If you continue to follow the road, you will end up in…
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Ghost of the Little Girl
My Grandparents In the early 1940s, an event occurred near by Grandparents house which was really tramatic. Although the event didn’t happen in the house, it happened nearby. A family lived next to my grandparents who had a young daughter about 8 years old. She was an inquisitive little girl, with long blond hair,…
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A Haunted Curve
When my family moved to Flea Harbor Road in 1940, there was a giant oak tree in a deep curve in the road directly in front of the house. From that curve ran the drive way passing the house and ending at a farm shop. A few years later a neighbor, who lived across the…
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