Thomas Hinds

Hinds moved to Jefferson County at twenty-five, became a justice, and in 1805 organized a company of dragoons. They scouted and raided Red Stick Creeks, then fought the British outside New Orleans in 1814 and 1815. He later turned to land. Hinds was a commissioner at the 1820 Treaty of Doak's Stand, which gave Mississippi Choctaw land and a county that carries his name, and on a failed 1826 commission to buy more. Mississippi got that land anyway through the treaties of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830 and Pontotoc Creek in 1832, which removed the Choctaw and Chickasaw.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Locust — 7.8 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.
• Emerald Mound — 12 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.
• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 12 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Windsor Ruins — 16 mi
  Twenty-three standing Corinthian columns left by an 1890 fire, the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi, built with enslaved labor on a 2,600-acre cotton plantation.

More markers nearby

• Charles Evers — steps away
• Old Greenville — 5.3 mi
• Salem Church, Cole's Creek — 5.9 mi
• Red Lick Presbyterian Church — 7.6 mi