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Second Creek (Mississippi)

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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. Second Creek is tributary to the Homochitto River.[1]: 15  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]: 5  In the 1790s, pollution from the process of producing indigo dye killed many of the fish that lived in Second Creek.[4] An attempted slave revolt, sometimes known as the Second Creek Slave Conspiracy, was suppressed in the vicinity of Second Creek in 1860.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Adams County mineral resources: Geology, by Franklin Earl Vestal: Tests, by Thomas Edwin McCutcheon". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  2. ^ https://store.usgs.gov/assets/MOD/StoreFiles/PDF/OFR_79_554.pdf
  3. ^ "In old Natchez / by Catharine Van Court". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  4. ^ Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 by David J. Libby, loc. 898
  5. ^ "Tumult And Silence At Second Creek". LSU Press. Retrieved 2024-07-14.