Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927

The 1927 flood that reached Vidalia's streets covered about 26,000 square miles of seven states and displaced an estimated 931,159 people. Roughly 10,000 square miles in 20 Louisiana parishes went under. The people who paid longest were tenant farmers, most of them Black, and many left the Delta for good, for Chicago, Detroit and other northern cities. Federal relief was stingy, and historians link that to Black voters moving away from the Republican Party. The flood rearranged who lived along the river.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — steps away
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.
• Frogmore Cotton Plantation and Gins — 15 mi
  A working cotton farm near Ferriday that tells the plantation story through the people enslaved there, with quarters, an ancient mound and a rare steam-engine gin.

More markers nearby

• Don José Vidal — 1.2 mi
• Haney's Big House — 9.0 mi
• Frank Morris — 9.0 mi
• Jerry Lee Lewis — 9.0 mi