Plymouth

The town grew around a house. John Pitchlynn, the U.S. interpreter for the Choctaw Agency, had a fortified home here, stockaded during the Creek War and called Fort Smith; Colonel John McKee used it as a base against the Red Sticks. By the 1830s stores and cotton warehouses lined the bluff, and Plymouth incorporated in 1836. The low ground flooded repeatedly, and by the 1840s most residents had moved to Columbus. A 210-acre area was listed on the National Register in 1980, and Mississippi University for Women now runs an environmental center here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Waverley Mansion — 3.7 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 4.1 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 11 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 24 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• Robinson Road — 4.0 mi
• Columbus — 4.0 mi
• Franklin Academy — 4.1 mi
• Confederate Decoration Day — 4.2 mi