Old Natchez District

This land changed hands at a table at Fort Adams on December 17, 1801. Sixteen Choctaw chiefs and warriors made their marks after General James Wilkinson told them the United States came not to ask lands from them. The treaty retraced the boundary with the Natchez settlers and allowed a road, the Natchez Trace, to be cut. The chiefs asked for tools: Apukshunnubbee wanted a blacksmith, an interpreter and spinning wheels, and Homastubbee a wheelwright. The Choctaw received $2,038 in goods, mostly guns and ammunition. The treaty effectively confirmed the transfer of 2.5 million acres.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — steps away
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.7 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.8 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.

More markers nearby

• Vicksburg — steps away
• Sheriff Peter Crosby — steps away
• Tommie Lee Williams Sr. — steps away
• Red Tops — steps away