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Tunica County Mississippi

Austin The only information the writer has been able to get on the old town of Austin is the following:

"The former county seats of Tunica County were all on the Mississippi River, and Austin at one time was a most important town, having a population of over 2,000, and doing a large river and inland trade. There was also built, in 1868, an expensive court house, costing some $35,000. That building still stands in the deserted and dismantled town, and reminds the visitor of other days when the bustle and confusion of trade and traffic filled the streets."74

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Footnotes:
74. Good Speed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Vol. I., page 252.

Source: The Mississippi Historical Commission Publications, Volume V, Edited by Franklin L. Riley,
Secretary, 1902.

 

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