Gen. Sam Dale

Dale's fame rests partly on the Canoe Fight of November 12, 1813, when he and seven militiamen chased eleven Creek warriors paddling corn up the Alabama River and killed them all. Later that winter he rode with militia that burned Red Stick villages, including one at the mouth of Pintlala Creek. He served in the Alabama legislature from 1817 to 1829, then became the first member of the state House from Lauderdale County. One account says an injury kept him from leading the forced removal of Choctaw people west.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Highland Park Dentzel Carousel — 14 mi
  The last two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in the world, in its original carousel house in Meridian's Highland Park, a National Historic Landmark since 1987.
• Jimmie Rodgers Museum — 14 mi
  The museum in Meridian that holds the guitar of the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers, the first inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience — 14 mi
  Meridian's two-level museum of Mississippi artists and entertainers, opened in 2018, with a Hall of Fame and a Walk of Fame that leads to it from the Riley Center.
• Meridian Civil Rights Trail — 14 mi
  An 18-stop self-guided trail through Meridian, from the Black business district and the 1964 Freedom Summer office to Wechsler School, the federal courthouse and James Chaney's grave.

More markers nearby

• Ross Alexander Collins — 11 mi
• Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery — 13 mi
• John C. Stennis — 14 mi
• Wechsler School — 14 mi