Cayuga, Mississippi
Cayuga, Mississippi | |
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 Mississippi River between Vicksburg and Rodney c. 1839 showing major roads and towns north of Natchez | |
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| Coordinates: 32°09′34″N 90°41′38″W / 32.15944°N 90.69389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Hinds |
| Elevation | 269 ft (82 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 601 |
| GNIS feature ID | 668178[1] |
Cayuga is an unincorporated community in Hinds County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
History
[edit]Cayuga was a point on the Natchez Trace, the stop after Rocky Springs when heading northeast toward Nashville.[2] It lay within the Choctaw Nation, just outside the Anglo-Spanish colonial Natchez District.[2] The community is named after Cayuga Lake, in New York.[3] Cayuga was once home to two churches.[4] A post office called Cayuga was established in 1829, and remained in operation until 1906.[5] A variant name was "Cayuga Plantation".[1]
Notable person
[edit]- Talbert A. Luster, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1912 to 1920.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cayuga, Mississippi
- ^ a b Rainwater, P. L. (1934). "The Autobiography of Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (August 26, 1808 – December 20, 1882)". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 21 (2). Organization of American Historians. Oxford University Press: 231–255. doi:10.2307/1896893. ISSN 0161-391X. JSTOR 1896893. OCLC 1776316.
- ^ Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 381.
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
- ^ History, Mississippi Department of Archives and (1912). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 413.
Municipalities and communities of Hinds County, Mississippi, United States | ||
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| Footnotes | ‡ This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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