And, with the church in the background:
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Showing posts with label Rocky Springs Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rocky Springs Mississippi. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday :: Rocky Springs Cemetery, Rocky Springs, Mississippi, Along The Trace
Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence
About milepost 54.8 you will find the Rocky Springs area, the town is no longer there, but, the Methodist Church built in 1837 is. On my November 15, 2012 post, I shared with you a bit of Rocky Springs. The cemetery behind the church is old, peaceful, spiritual, and on the day of our visit full of light and dark, the huge spanish moss laden trees casting deep shadows. Rocky Springs Cemetery is well represented on the internet, at Find A Grave, and others, including, a site by James L. Berry, Graveyards and Gravestones. For individual interments and photos of headstones, please visit both sites, or try a search with your favorite search engine.
And, with the church in the background:
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And, with the church in the background:
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
THE Trip, THE Encore' :: Driving Natchez Trace, Day Four, Part One
Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence
Day four of our drive of the Natchez Trace resulted in 285 photos, and too many wonderful things photographed to share all in one post, so, there will be more than one. We found four cemeteries (see future posts), an abandoned town, several home sites and several more Native American burial mounds.
The first mound site was called Boyd (no photos published). The next stop was Reservoir Overlook at mile marker 105.6. The Ross Barnett Reservoir is formed by an earth filled dam of the Pearl River. It was a peaceful and pretty place.
About one mile away at mile marker 104.5 is another section of the Old Trace you can visit. This particular section is level with the surrounding lands. Many sections of the Trace are like deep gulches (see below).
This is Rocky Springs Methodist Church, built in 1837. There is a cemetery here full of interesting stones. Yes, a future blog post or two, I took many photos in that cemetery and did not get all the stones.
The nearby town (nearby as in just steps away) of Rocky Springs (mile marker 54.8) was a "station" along the Trace, was a thriving community from the 1790's till sometime around the mid 1860's. The spring that originally drew it's citizens dried up, the Civil War, yellow fever and insect devastation were more than the locals could deal with. About all that is left are a couple of safes and a couple of old dried up cisterns.
Our last stop of today's post is called Sunken Trace at mile marker 41.5.
Here you can get a good idea of how deep the Trace is beaten down - Man and Cappy taking a lookie see.
Our last two stops on the Trace were Mount Locust and Emerald Mound. Mount Locust had two cemeteries! Emerald Mound was amazing, so much so that the photos really don't do it justice, but, I shall try!
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The first mound site was called Boyd (no photos published). The next stop was Reservoir Overlook at mile marker 105.6. The Ross Barnett Reservoir is formed by an earth filled dam of the Pearl River. It was a peaceful and pretty place.
About one mile away at mile marker 104.5 is another section of the Old Trace you can visit. This particular section is level with the surrounding lands. Many sections of the Trace are like deep gulches (see below).
This is Rocky Springs Methodist Church, built in 1837. There is a cemetery here full of interesting stones. Yes, a future blog post or two, I took many photos in that cemetery and did not get all the stones.
The nearby town (nearby as in just steps away) of Rocky Springs (mile marker 54.8) was a "station" along the Trace, was a thriving community from the 1790's till sometime around the mid 1860's. The spring that originally drew it's citizens dried up, the Civil War, yellow fever and insect devastation were more than the locals could deal with. About all that is left are a couple of safes and a couple of old dried up cisterns.
Our last stop of today's post is called Sunken Trace at mile marker 41.5.
Here you can get a good idea of how deep the Trace is beaten down - Man and Cappy taking a lookie see.
Our last two stops on the Trace were Mount Locust and Emerald Mound. Mount Locust had two cemeteries! Emerald Mound was amazing, so much so that the photos really don't do it justice, but, I shall try!
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