Fort Adams, Mississippi

Fort Adams is a small, river port community in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States,[1] about 40 miles (64 km) south of Natchez.

Around 1700, a French priest named Father Albert Davion established a mission on the Mississippi River bluffs at or near the site of Fort Adams.

"[2] The hill became a landmark and stopping place for people traveling on the river or on the overland trails that connected Natchez with New Orleans.

[3] The site became Fort Adams after the United States and Spain settled a boundary dispute over parts of what is now southern Mississippi.

It was quite a nourishing town and thousands of bales of cotton were loaded here, and an extensive business was carried on here; but its glory is now departed, and by reason of its inaccessibility is seldom visited by strangers, and it is but little known beyond the county in which it is situated...a quiet little village with houses of ancient architecture, whose crumbling walls and moss-covered roofs tell us that they were erected in generations that are passed and gone..."[2] As of 1993, Fort Adams was a small community and the site of businesses that provided supplies to hunting and fishing camps in the region.