Fort Adams

In December 1801 a Choctaw delegation came to Fort Adams, on Loftus Heights above the river, and General James Wilkinson welcomed them for President Jefferson. Their chiefs allowed a road to be cut and the old boundary to be redrawn, and several used the talks to ask for a blacksmith, spinning wheels, a cotton gin, or no whiskey at the table. On December 17 sixteen chiefs marked the treaty. For three sets of blacksmith tools and about $2,038 in goods, mostly guns and ammunition, the Choctaw effectively confirmed the transfer of 2.5 million acres.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Clark Creek Natural Area — 13 mi
  A 700-acre ravine preserve in the Tunica Hills with about 50 waterfalls on loess bluffs, reached by a 4.9-mile loop trail, foot traffic only.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 21 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 21 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.

More markers nearby

• William Grant Still — steps away
• Woodville Blues — steps away
• The Woodville Republican — 0.2 mi
• Carnot Posey Home — 0.2 mi