[2][3] According to the memoir of a man born in Adams County in 1830, Raccoon Box was a stop on the Natchez Trace: "At intervals of about six miles along this road, in the early settlement of the territory, little villages had been located as I remember, between Natchez and Port Gibson, first Washington, once the capital of the state, then Selsertown, Uniontown, Greenville, Raccoon Box, and one other, the name of which I have forgotten, Red Lick, I believe, and then Port Gibson.

'"[5] The name Raccoon Box is very old; the site was a gathering point for white settlers fleeing in panic from the Fort Mims Massacre during the Creek War in 1813.

[6] A local history writer in 1846 recorded that Raccoon Box was a point where several roads converged, writing "I now forget the origin of a name so euphonous, and where once rang the shout and huzza of the race course, the militia muster and the drunken rout and revel.

For in those primitive times, men as now, met to talk, and drink, and fight; but if they did not indulge in old Madeira or sparkling Hock, they found a solace from the cares and vexations of a frontier life, in 'Ben Miller's' Whiskey.

The merchant prince, who had erected at the place mentioned above a log cabin store with a 'California built shed-room' in the rear, was doing a thriving business—selling eggs.