Andrew Marschalk

Marschalk's career was a string of fights. A soldier on the Ohio frontier under Wayne and St. Clair, he printed a poem called The Galley Slave at Walnut Hills in 1798, the first work printed in Mississippi. Later he edited the Washington Republican, and Judge George Poindexter chased him into his shop and beat him over an article. He ran newspapers in Natchez and Washington almost without a break until 1833, backing Jefferson's party and then Jackson's, and helped start papers in Woodville and Port Gibson. Several of his sons also became publishers.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture — steps away
  A museum in the old 1904 post office on Main Street, opened in 1991, covering slavery, Reconstruction and the Natchez civil rights movement.
• William Johnson House — steps away
  The brick home and shop block of a free Black barber and diarist in Natchez, who enslaved others himself and was shot by a neighbor in 1851.
• Fort Rosalie — 0.5 mi
  The bluff where the French built Fort Rosalie in 1716 and the Natchez attacked it in 1729, now a free Natchez National Historical Park site beside the southern end of the Natchez Trace.
• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — 1.0 mi
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.

More markers nearby

• Natchez Burning — steps away
• Commercial Bank Building — steps away
• Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi
• Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.4 mi