Choctaw Line

The line marks where two Choctaw land cessions meet. The first, the Treaty of Doak's Stand, was signed on 18 October 1820 by Andrew Jackson and Thomas Hinds. The Choctaw gave up about five million acres, a third of their remaining Mississippi homeland, for some thirteen million acres west of the river. Pushmataha, one of three chiefs at the talks, told Jackson the western grass was short and beaver and fruit scarce, and Jackson answered with the threat that the nation would be destroyed if it refused. The land beyond the line went in 1830, at Dancing Rabbit Creek.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Roosevelt State Park — 3.3 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps state park on 150-acre Shadow Lake beside Bienville National Forest, with rustic cabins the CCC built between 1935 and 1940.
• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 24 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 26 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 27 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.

More markers nearby

• Ruben Lacy — 4.4 mi
• Centenary College — 8.1 mi
• Shiloh Methodist Campground — 8.9 mi
• Arthur Crudup — 15 mi