Waltersville - Vicksburg, MS
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Markerman62
N 32° 22.748 W 090° 52.087
15S E 700554 N 3584459
Located on Business US 61 at Haining Road, north of Vicksburg
Waymark Code: WM13FPE
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/02/2020
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First known Dayton's Cowpen, Waltersville is one of Warren County's oldest settlements. In 1798, a copy of "The Galley Slave," the first printing in the Mississippi Territory, was printed in this area. Named for Sam Walters, who owned a store and saloon, Waltersville was popular with Vicksburg residents for more than a century, as the town featured a race track, baseball and gambling, with a trolley line and regular steamboat excursions. Chartered as a town on August 4, 1904, it soon declined and the charter was revoked in 1910.
Date Installed:: 2019
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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