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Louisiana Flood 1912, Cotton Compress at Vicksburg as a refuge (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Randy Reiss said:

  A result of The Mississippi River Flood of 1912.

• Alder Ahlvin said:

  Hello, I'm Alder an admin for a group called Vicksburg, Mississippi, and we'd love to have this added to the group! This would be a good addition.

• Charles Bell said:

  A Vicksburg map from 1890 indicates there were two cotton compresses operating in Vicksburg, the upper one in the city block bounded by Mulberry, Depot, Pearl, and South Madison Street which was close to a Vicksburg and Meridian rail road terminal were the Mississippi Hardware is located today. A picture post card in the Mississippi Archives Cooper Postcard collection, indicates this set of buildings was the lower compress and that there were additional buildings, including one for sampling cotton. In and about Vicksburg. An illustrated guide book to the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi (1890) Author: [Richardson, Lee], 1866- [from old catalog]; Godman, Thomas David, [from old catalog] joint author Publisher: Vicksburg, Miss., The Gibraltar publishing company www.archive.org/details/inaboutvicksburg00rich

• Charles Bell said:

  There is an image of the lower cotton compress along Levee Street and the train tracks mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/cooper/index.php?...