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Ghost town in Mississippi, United States
Gum Ridge, Mississippi
Ghost town
Gum Ridge is located in MississippiGum RidgeGum RidgeShow map of MississippiGum Ridge is located in the United StatesGum RidgeGum RidgeShow map of the United States
Coordinates: 31°47′01″N 91°14′40″W / 31.78361°N 91.24444°W / 31.78361; -91.24444
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyJefferson
Elevation69 ft (21 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID707694

Gum Ridge is a ghost town in Jefferson County, Mississippi.

Gum Ridge was located at the eastern end of a bend in the Mississippi River, at the mouth of Coles Creek.

A post office was established in 1875, and the hamlet was included on Mississippi River postal routes.

The river changed course in 1884 and began to flow along the "Waterproof Cutoff", named for nearby Waterproof, Louisiana. Gum Ridge had been removed from the contiguous Mississippi River, and the former bend in the river filled in.

In 1900, Gum Ridge had a population of 29.

Aboriginal artifacts, particularly a celt and a sandstone pipe, have been found at Gum Ridge.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gum Ridge (historical)
  2. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 828.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gum Ridge Post Office (historical)
  4. Bragg, Marion (1977). "Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River" (PDF). Mississippi River Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2013.
  5. Moore, Clarence Bloomfield (1908). The Lower Mississippi Valley Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. University of Alabama Press. pp. 377, 378. ISBN 9780817309497.
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