The Chickasaw Bluff is the high ground rising about 50 to 200 feet (20–60 m) above the Mississippi River flood plain between Fulton in Lauderdale County...
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alternate name, Chickasaw Bluffs. Although this may be derived from a variation on "Bluffs over Chickasaw Bayou" (referring to Drumgould's Bluff), the geographic...
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Lhafa’ Okhina in Chikashanompa', which means “scored bluff waterway", known today as the Chickasaw Bluffs. Settling upon the river provided the people with...
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Memphis, Tennessee (redirect from The Bluff City)
Memphis was Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1541. The high Chickasaw Bluffs protecting the location from the waters of the Mississippi was contested...
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de l'Assumption on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff (present-day Memphis, Tennessee) 120 miles to the west of the Chickasaw villages. Canada contributed troops...
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stockade fortification, constructed in late February 1682 on one of the Chickasaw Bluffs of the Mississippi River in West Tennessee by Cavelier de La Salle's...
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The Chickasaw Campaign of 1736 (February 28 – March 25, 1736), also known as the First Chickasaw War, consisted of two pitched battles by the French and...
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army troops in front of Chickasaw Bluff, while Marmora joined six other naval vessels in advancing upriver against Drumgould's Bluff. The naval vessels were...
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fourth Chickasaw Bluff on the Mississippi River in Shelby County, present day Memphis, Tennessee. The fort was used as a base against the Chickasaw in the...
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Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon...
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designated a "DeSoto Corridor" from Coahoma County, Mississippi to the Chickasaw Bluff in Memphis. The Mississippian culture declined and disappeared, and...
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artist. The project originally included three pyramids located on the south bluffs of Memphis overlooking the Mississippi River. The largest of the three would...
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of 150 men to defend Spanish claims of the territory at the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff. Although Spain renounced its claim to the area in Pinckney's Treaty...
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organized a second campaign and collected his forces at Chickasaw Bluff in 1739. The Chickasaws sued for peace, and a treaty was signed with Bienville...
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Tom Lee Park in the south. Points of interest along the riverfront Chickasaw Bluff at Beale Street Landing Riverfront Trolley Mud Island Harbor Town Pinch...
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near the settlement because of its strategic location on the second Chickasaw Bluff of the Mississippi River. Following the Civil War, investment in infrastructure...
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Randolph, Tennessee (redirect from Randolph Bluff Historic Park)
twice by Union Army forces. The settlement is located on the second Chickasaw Bluff, the landscape is dominated by valleys carved into the soil as a product...
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controlled by the Chickasaw tribe, owned by possession and tribal rights. On April 3, 1790 promotion of a town at Chickasaw Bluffs was undertaken with...
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Jamestown Road, then Randolph Road), following the top ridge of the 2nd Chickasaw Bluff. Passing through the town of Randolph, Tennessee, the trail turns right...
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partially shot in a Chickasaw Gardens house. Chickasaw Gardens Home Owners Association website. Lauderdale, V. Ask Vance. Bluff City Books, Memphis,...
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Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon...
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1834, early settler James Peters purchased two sections of land from the Chickasaw Nation for the sum of $1.25 per acre. This land was later developed as...
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Warehouse District Winchester Park Annesdale Belleair Central Gardens Chickasaw Gardens Cooper-Young Crosstown Evergreen Hein Park Idlewild Lea's Woods...
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Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon...
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Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon...
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Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon...
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land – known as Sections 34 and 35 – in newly created DeSoto County from Chickasaw chief Lush-Pun-Tubby for $1,600, equal to $44,393 today. Flinn conveyed...
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Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon...
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S. 51. At the time of encounters by French and Spanish colonists, the Chickasaw people had long inhabited this area. France had developed colonial settlements...
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government erected Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas in 1795 near the Chickasaw Bluffs at the mouth of the Wolf River. The fort was dismantled in 1797 in...
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