| This was the site of the signing, on 27 September 1830, of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which provided for the ceding of the remaining Choctaw land in Mississippi to the U.S. government. In 1959 the property was acquired by the Mississippi park system. The treaty site was listed on the National Register on 3 April 1973, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark on 19 June 1996. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 1 May 1986. It is included in "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (p. 11). |