Anchuca

Anchuca matters partly for who died in it. Joseph Emory Davis, Jefferson Davis's older brother, lived here with a granddaughter from 1868 until his death on September 18, 1870. His Davis Bend plantation held more than 450 enslaved people at its peak, and the most indispensable, Benjamin Montgomery, ran the store and much of the operation. In 1866 Davis transferred the property to Montgomery, whose family farmed it as free people until 1878. Jefferson Davis took control back in 1881. The Montgomerys kept Ursino.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — steps away
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.6 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.7 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.

More markers nearby

• Newit Vick's Original Vicksburg — steps away
• Dr. David D. Foote — steps away
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — steps away
• Sheriff Peter Crosby — steps away