Iuka

Iuka stands on the site of a Chickasaw village thought to be subordinate to Underwood Village, and the town's name comes from one of that village's chiefs. David Hubbard, a wagon train scout, founded the town, and Euro-American settlers arrived with the Memphis and Charleston Railroad in 1857. Before the war Iuka had an all-female college, a boys' military academy and a fine hotel. The town recovered slowly, until the Tennessee Valley Authority built Pickwick Landing Dam and Pickwick Lake. Woodall Mountain, the highest point in Mississippi, lies just south.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 13 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 — 21 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

• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — steps away
• Iuka Normal — 0.3 mi
• Eastport — 0.6 mi
• Unknown Soldiers C.S.A. — 0.8 mi