Eastport

Eastport sat where Bear Creek meets the Tennessee River, a spot on the Natchez Trace that made it a trading post. Tishomingo County was created in 1836 after the Chickasaw Cession, and Eastport was chartered about 1838. In the 1840s and 1850s it was a river port whose population may have reached 2,000, with as many as six steamboats a day. In 1857 town leaders turned down an offer to route the Memphis and Charleston Railroad through, so the line went to Iuka and many residents followed. Pickwick Dam later submerged the old town.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 14 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 17 mi
  A state park beside TVA's Pickwick Landing Dam, a few miles north of the Mississippi and Alabama lines, with a lodge, marina, golf course, aviary and the lake the 1938 dam made.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 20 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 22 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.

More markers nearby

• Iuka — 0.6 mi
• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — 0.6 mi
• Unknown Soldiers C.S.A. — 0.7 mi
• Iuka Normal — 0.9 mi