Claiborne County MsArchives History .....Claiborne County, Mississippi 1802 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 November 20, 2023, 7:10 am Claiborne County, Mississippi Located in southwestern Mississippi, the oldest cotton-producing region in the state, Claiborne was created in 1802 from northern Jefferson County. Jefferson had been one of two original Mississippi counties that together encompassed what was once the colonial Natchez District. Port Gibson, near the intersection of Bayou Pierre and the Natchez Trace military road, was the county seat. Additional Comments: Source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016953/ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/claiborne/history/other/claiborn37gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb