Second Creek (Mississippi)
Second Creek is a waterway in the southern section of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.[1] Second Creek is tributary to the Homochitto River.[2]: 15 It enters the Homochitto near U.S. Route 61 bridge at Doloroso.[3]
The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto visited what is called White Apple Village, the settlement of Natchez chief Great Sun, along Second Creek, in approximately 1541.[4]: 5 In the 1790s, pollution from the process of producing indigo dye killed many of the fish that lived in Second Creek.[5] An attempted slave revolt, sometimes known as the Second Creek Slave Conspiracy, was suppressed in the vicinity of Second Creek in 1860.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Second Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
- ^ "Adams County mineral resources: Geology, by Franklin Earl Vestal: Tests, by Thomas Edwin McCutcheon". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ https://store.usgs.gov/assets/MOD/StoreFiles/PDF/OFR_79_554.pdf
- ^ "In old Natchez / by Catharine Van Court". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 by David J. Libby, loc. 898
- ^ "Tumult And Silence At Second Creek". LSU Press. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
31°20′06″N 91°21′25″W / 31.33513°N 91.35705°W
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