Tag: Tunica County
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Tunica Museum
The Tunica Museum is dedicated to the history of Tunica County. The area that would become Tunica was opened up to settlement after the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832. The Chickasaw relinquished their lands east of the Mississippi River for a promise of new homes to the west. Tunica was organized in 1836 and…
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“She was Called to Teach” Nancy Jones
Picture from Research provided by the Tunica Museum and Jennie Burton Some people become teachers because they view it as an easy job. It isn’t. Others become teachers because they have a calling. Nancy Jones had a calling and she followed that belief from Tennessee to Africa and back. Nancy was born January 8, 1860…
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Private Willie Gordon, Tunica
Like many young men from rural Mississippi, Willie Gordon was drafted and reported for training in Little Rock, Arkansas. Whether he dreamed of becoming a hero or simply living through the conflict we will never know, because he died without ever leaving the country. To understand young Willie Brown, one must look at the U.S.…
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The Dowd Legacy in Tunica and Coahoma Counties
William Francis and his younger brother Andrew Sidney Dowd were two extra ordinary men who had to deal with the carnage of the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction. They managed to master both in their own ways. Let me start off by saying a few things. I am not related to either man…