[2][4] Prior to Ellis, the Lieutenant Governor of West Florida, Montfort Browne, received a grant of land at this place and planned to locate the civil government at the site.

[2] British artist William Constable visited America between 1806–08 and painted View Down the Mississippi from Ellis's Cliffs, 28 Feby.

[7][8] Artist John Rowson Smith traveled the Mississippi River before the Civil War and painted The Cotton Region, which included a scene of "the house of a colored slave owner at Ellis Cliffs".

[9]: 87  Henry Lewis also painted the river, and described Ellis Cliffs as "strikingly bold, wild, and picturesque".

[10] The former settlement is today covered by forest, and bordered to the north by the St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge.