Napoleon

The man behind the place was an interpreter. Simon Favre, born near Mobile in 1760, spoke Choctaw and Chickasaw and worked for the French, British, Spanish and Americans; accounts call him a friend of the Choctaw leader Pushmataha. His father first settled the Pearl River land in 1767, and Favre kept a store at Napoleon that later became part of the church. He died in 1813, and an October 1814 inventory listed 57 enslaved people by name, age and value, the oldest aged eighty and valued at five dollars.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• INFINITY Science Center — 1.9 mi
  NASA's visitor center for Stennis Space Center, at the Mississippi welcome center near the Louisiana line, with a Saturn V booster outside and a story of five river towns that were moved.
• Crosby Arboretum — 12 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.
• Fontainebleau State Park — 24 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Gainesville Volunteers — 2.1 mi
• Logtown — 3.2 mi
• Original Lone Star Republic — 5.3 mi
• Indian Village — 5.9 mi