Cayuga, Mississippi Explained

Official Name:Cayuga, Mississippi
Pushpin Map:Mississippi#USA
Pushpin Label:Cayuga
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Mississippi
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Hinds
Timezone:Central (CST)
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Elevation Ft:269
Coordinates:32.1594°N -90.6939°W
Postal Code Type:ZIP code
Area Code:601
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:668178

Cayuga is an unincorporated community in Hinds County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

History

Cayuga was a point on the Natchez Trace, the stop after Rocky Springs when heading northeast toward Nashville.[1] It lay within the Choctaw Nation, just outside the Anglo-Spanish colonial Natchez District. The community is named after Cayuga Lake, in New York.[2] Cayuga was once home to two churches.[3] A post office called Cayuga was established in 1829, and remained in operation until 1906.[4] A variant name was "Cayuga Plantation".

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Notes and References

  1. Rainwater . P. L. . 1934 . Organization of American Historians . The Autobiography of Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (August 26, 1808December 20, 1882) . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review . Oxford University Press . 21 . 2 . 231–255 . 10.2307/1896893 . 0161-391X . 1896893 . 1776316.
  2. Book: Baca, Keith A.. Native American Place Names in Mississippi. 2007. University Press of Mississippi. 978-1-60473-483-6. 20.
  3. Book: Rowland, Dunbar . Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form . Southern Historical Publishing Association . 1907 . 1 . 381.
  4. Web site: Post Offices . Jim Forte Postal History . 9 July 2019.
  5. Book: History, Mississippi Department of Archives and. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. 1912. Department of Archives and History. 413. en.