Second Creek (Mississippi)

Confluence of Second Creek and Homochitto River mapped by USGS in 1988

Second Creek, 1942

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

1. "Second Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 12, 2025.
2. "Adams County mineral resources: Geology, by Franklin Earl Vestal: Tests, by Thomas Edwin McCutcheon". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
3. https://store.usgs.gov/assets/MOD/StoreFiles/PDF/OFR_79_554.pdf
4. "In old Natchez / by Catharine Van Court". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
5. Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 by David J. Libby, loc. 898
6. "Tumult And Silence At Second Creek". LSU Press. Retrieved 2024-07-14.

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