Fighting Near Etowah

The lumber camp that became Etowah came a generation after the 1864 fight here. The Chapman and Dewey Lumber Company arrived in 1890 to cut cypress, drawing workers from several states, and by 1902 their families were asking for a post office. Postal officials rejected Jackson's Island, Rosa and Roosevelt were considered, and Etowah won out. Local lore says a rider shouted it, though no known Native American language gives the word a meaning. The nearby cemetery holds many unmarked graves from the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Johnny Cash Boyhood Home — 7.7 mi
  A restored five-room farmhouse in the Dyess Colony, the New Deal resettlement town where Johnny Cash grew up from 1935, with the colony's Administration Building as its museum.
• Herman Davis State Park — 13 mi
  A one-acre state park in Manila around the grave and memorial of Pvt. Herman Davis, a duck-hunting guide who became a scout and sharpshooter in the First World War and was fourth on Pershing's list of heroes.
• Hampson Archeological Museum State Park — 14 mi
  A free state museum on the town square in Wilson that holds the Nodena collection, one of the best Late Mississippian pottery collections known, from a palisaded village on the Mississippi occupied from A.D. 1400 to 1650.
• Southern Tenant Farmers Museum — 16 mi
  A museum in the 1930s dry cleaner and filling station where leaders of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union met, telling the story of cotton tenancy and the Black and white union it produced.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi County Court House — 15 mi
• Reggie Young — 15 mi
• Blytheville Black Commercial Historic District — 24 mi