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Early Days and the Legacy of the Choctaw
When Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto first explored the rolling woodlands east of the Mississippi River in 1540, he encountered little hostility from the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez who lived here, but he encountered even less silver or gold, and as a result his visit was short-lived.
In 1699, French pioneer Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville laid claim to much of Mississippi for his European monarch. Over the next 100 years, the region was alternately controlled by the French, Spanish and English. In 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created by an act of the United States Congress.
Mississippi was granted statehood in 1817, and in 1820, the Treaty of Doak's Stand effectively ceded most of what remained of Choctaw-controlled land to the federal government, clearing the way for larger white settlements. By the 1830s, what was left of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were forcibly relocated to the Oklahoma Territory. The Natchez had been all but exterminated nearly a century before.
New Statehood and a Capital Dilemma
First Natchez and then sleepy Washington were named capitals of the new state, but soon Mississippi's leaders desired a more central location. An exploratory expedition was commissioned to scout out potential sites, with the search party eventually settling on a point in central Mississippi along the Pearl River called LeFleur's Bluff (after French-Canadian trader Louis LeFleur, who had established a trading post on the site in 1792).
Construction began in April of 1822. The new capital city featured a checkerboard pattern of straight, perpendicular streets, with public squares of green space interspersed among blocks designated for building. The orderly downtown arrangement still exists, but most of the green space has been lost. The new city was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 and the future seventh president of the United States.
When Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto first explored the rolling woodlands east of the Mississippi River in 1540, he encountered little hostility from the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez who lived here, but he encountered even less silver or gold, and as a result his visit was short-lived.
In 1699, French pioneer Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville laid claim to much of Mississippi for his European monarch. Over the next 100 years, the region was alternately controlled by the French, Spanish and English. In 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created by an act of the United States Congress.
Mississippi was granted statehood in 1817, and in 1820, the Treaty of Doak's Stand effectively ceded most of what remained of Choctaw-controlled land to the federal government, clearing the way for larger white settlements. By the 1830s, what was left of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were forcibly relocated to the Oklahoma Territory. The Natchez had been all but exterminated nearly a century before.
New Statehood and a Capital Dilemma
First Natchez and then sleepy Washington were named capitals of the new state, but soon Mississippi's leaders desired a more central location. An exploratory expedition was commissioned to scout out potential sites, with the search party eventually settling on a point in central Mississippi along the Pearl River called LeFleur's Bluff (after French-Canadian trader Louis LeFleur, who had established a trading post on the site in 1792).
Construction began in April of 1822. The new capital city featured a checkerboard pattern of straight, perpendicular streets, with public squares of green space interspersed among blocks designated for building. The orderly downtown arrangement still exists, but most of the green space has been lost. The new city was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 and the future seventh president of the United States.
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