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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