Bruinsburg - Port Gibson, MS
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jdwms_1950
N 31° 57.490 W 090° 58.982
15R E 690617 N 3537575
Bruinsburg marker.
Waymark Code: WM2EJX
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2007
Views: 45
About 14 miles west at the mouth of Bayou Pierre is the old river port settled by Peter Bryan Bruin in 1788. It was visited by Aaron Burr in 1807. Grant landed there in Vicksburg Campaign of 1863.
Date Installed:: 1991/01/01
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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