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Pigeon Roost Choctaw trading post and stand
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Trade beads
Flint and stone toolsAlso reported: Spanish reales, large cents, musket balls, buttons, wrought nails, kaolin pipes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (CC BY 4.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1790-1830 Choctaw trading post and Natchez road stand
Nathaniel Folsom's stand and trading post on the Old Natchez Road at the Big Black River crossing, later home to Choctaw chief David Folsom and a Choctaw school. It ceased to exist as a settlement after the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, though a post office ran until 1871.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
river bottom
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