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GEOGRAPHY Cotton Gin Port was located at on the east bank of the Tombigbee river. HISTORY Cotton Gin Port was the first town in north Mississippi . It was located on the east bank of the Tombigbee River at a crossing of vital Indian trails. It was a base of expeditions of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville in 1736 and Vaudreuil in 1752. The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad caused extinction as the townfolk moved to the new town of Amory . The early U.S. government built a Cotton Gin in 1801 at Cotton Gin Port as part of a "plan of civilization" for the local Chickasaw Indians. A road, Gaines Trace , was built to the town in 1811 and 1812 . This road ran from close to Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River to Cotton Gin Port, where it crossed the Tombigbee; it then proceeded south to Fort Stoddert . The ruins of the old town can still be found between the Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Tombigbee River , and relics from the old settlement can be seen at the Amory Municipal Museum. REFERENCES
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