Cayuga, Mississippi

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Cayuga, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Cayuga
Coordinates: 32°09′34″N90°41′38″W / 32.15944°N 90.69389°W / 32.15944; -90.69389
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Hinds
Elevation
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269 ft (82 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 601
GNIS feature ID668178 [1]

Cayuga is an unincorporated community in Hinds County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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History

Cayuga was a point on the Natchez Trace, the stop after Rocky Springs when heading northeast toward Nashville. [2] It lay within the Choctaw Nation, just outside the Anglo-Spanish colonial Natchez District. [2] The community is named after Cayuga Lake, in New York. [3] Cayuga was once home to two churches. [4] A post office called Cayuga was established in 1829, and remained in operation until 1906. [5] A variant name was "Cayuga Plantation". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cayuga, Mississippi
  2. 1 2 Rainwater, P. L. (1934). "The Autobiography of Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (August 26, 1808 –December 20, 1882)". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 21 (2). Organization of American Historians. Oxford University Press: 231–255. doi:10.2307/1896893. ISSN   0161-391X. JSTOR   1896893. OCLC   1776316.
  3. ↑ Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 20. ISBN   978-1-60473-483-6.
  4. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 381.
  5. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ History, Mississippi Department of Archives and (1912). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 413.


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