Duckport, Louisiana

[4] The settlement was originally known as Sparta and was described in Zadok Cramer's Navigator in 1817: "Good landing on the left side opposite [My Wife's Island], along a willow shore.

103 on the left shore, the old bed of the river formerly ran across to the Yazoo, and entered that ziver two miles above its present mouth.

The bank having given way considerably in one place, an eddy is formed, but it presents no danger if you ply the oars well and keep pretty well out.

[8] There was a series of suspicious fires at Duckport in 1885–86 that totaled a home at Sparta Landing, a storehouse, and a lumber warehouse.

[12] A fragment of the civil war-era canal was still visible in 1933 from a gravel road that ran from Thomaston to Duckport.