Mississippi Territory
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The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by the Congress of the United States. It was approved and signed
1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory
Washington Methodist Church organized in 1799; this building constructed 1828
Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Winthrop Sargent
Governor William C. C. Claiborne
Washington, Mississippi
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Washington is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Located along the lower Mississippi, 6 miles east of Natchez, it was the second and longest-serving capital of th
Mississippi Territory
…approximately the southern half of the present states of Alabama and Mississippi. The territorial capital was originally in Natchez, but was moved to Washington, six miles up the Natchez Trace, on February 1, 1802. The state of Georgia had maintained a claim over almost the entire area of the present states of…
Washington mapped in 1823
Methodist Meeting House—the first statehood constitutional convention was held here July to August 1817
Historical plaque at Washington