Second Creek (Mississippi) Explained

Second Creek is a waterway in the southern section of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Second Creek is tributary to the Homochitto River.[1] It enters the Homochitto near U.S. Route 61 bridge at Doloroso.[2]

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.[3] An attempted slave revolt, sometimes known as the Second Creek Slave Conspiracy, was suppressed in the vicinity of Second Creek in 1860.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adams County mineral resources: Geology, by Franklin Earl Vestal: Tests, by Thomas Edwin McCutcheon . 2024-07-14 . HathiTrust . en.
  2. https://store.usgs.gov/assets/MOD/StoreFiles/PDF/OFR_79_554.pdf
  3. Web site: In old Natchez / by Catharine Van Court . 2024-07-14 . HathiTrust . en.
  4. Web site: Tumult And Silence At Second Creek . 2024-07-14 . LSU Press . en-US.