Historical Marker
Creation of Pike County
McComb, Pike County · Mississippi
Erected 2015
Pike County was cut from Marion County by the territorial legislature on December 9, 1815, and named for the explorer and army officer Zebulon Pike. Its first officials took their bonds in January 1816: J. Y. McNabb as clerk of the courts and David Cleveland as sheriff. By 1818 Henry Quin was clerk and Laban Bacot sheriff. The 1820 census counted 3,444 free people and 994 enslaved. Forty years later the free population had not quite doubled, to 6,200, while the enslaved had grown nearly fivefold, to 4,935.
Where it stands
31.20355, -90.30862 · Directions
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