Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana

[10] Once the U.S. Army had full control of the Mississippi, "Goodrich was turned over to the blacks again and a northern Freedmen's Aid Commission sent a young woman down from Chicago to teach the new citizens to read and write.

She set up a school under the trees and began to initiate about 50 small children into the mysteries of the alphabet and the printed word.

"[11] In 1864, after the lands in the vicinity of the Greenville Bends were no longer Confederate strongholds (although not yet wholly restored to the Union), a report on the "future supply of cotton" urged readers interested in the economy of the South to "Take, then, Sancho Lynch, at Goodrich's Landing, 'A right smart handy nigger-boy' to use the terms of two years ago; hiring his associates, he produced 75 bales of cotton, valued at $18,000.

[1] Levees were being built and repaired by convict labor at Pecan Grove, Goodrich's Landing, and nearby Illawara in 1891.

[16][17] According to a history of Carroll Parish prepared for the 1976 bicentennial of the United States, "due to the changing course of the Mississippi River, the Pecan Grove site is now located north of Henderson Island in the state of Mississippi.