MAYORS DOCKET–Criminal Cases: VILLAGE OF RIDGELAND, MS (1901 – 1954)

This article tells how the Harris family came to Mississippi as enslaved persons with J. B. Yellowley anddocuments their lives through the early years of the 1900s.

Neighbors and descendants of Ridgeland’s First Families, Eloise Gilbert and Harvey Carr, Sr. greet eachother at a meeting of The Historical Society of Ridgeland.

The 1848 document showing sale of land, tools, livestock, and enslaved persons from J.B. Yellowley to E.C. Yellowley. Descendants of these persons, which includes Eloise Gilbert’s great grandmother, PateinceHarris, still live in Ridgeland today.

This plat, made in 1822, shows the eastern part of the Choctaw District. Much of this land was floodedwhen the Reservoir was created in the 1960s.

This plat, made in 1825, shows the Choctaw District and the location of the Agency station house thatwas located on what is now The Natchez Trace Parkway.

The firm of Koehler and Keele, civil engineers, certified this map for the Town of Ridgeland in August of1952.

This April 1896 edition of the Jackson Evening News tells of the coming of “home seekers” from Ohio,Indiana, Nebraska, Illinois, the Dakotas and other northern and western states.

An aerial view of the Town of Ridgeland taken in 1955 when the population was less than 1,000 people.