Hinds County MsArchives Photo Place.....1844 Cooper's Well '03
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Source:             Hinds County Gazette
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In 1844 the water of Cooper’s Well
began to attract attention in the neighborhood.
The young people of Raymond
then first commenced their visits
to the place, and from the small
beginning thus made, the Wells soon
eclipsed Mississippi Springs; and
from about 1848 to 1860 had a most
extraordinary run of visitors and had
acquired a reputation Co-extensive
with the Southwestern States.  Prior
to 1844 the pleasure seekers and invalids
very generally collected during
the summer months at Mississippi
Springs.  It is said there were oftentimes
hundreds of visitors at the
Springs at a time, and that some of
the most splendid balls and parties—
splendid for the array of youth, beauty
and fashion—ever witnessed in the
State, were presented at the Springs
in ’39,’40,’41, &c.
But the Springs was not the only 
public resort that was captured by
the Well.  In ’42 and ’43 her was a
public house—with barroom, billiards, 
ten pins and the other attendant
circumstances—in a house which
stood where the residence of James
M. Futch now stands, in the southern
part of town.  A spring near the
building was held forth as highly mineral,
and the sporting men of the town
found the place quite an agreeable
refuge during the heat of the day as 
well as after nightfall.  In ’44, however,
the place was closed as a public
resort, and was occupied as a private
residence by H. J. Bankston, Who
started on the premises a brick yard.



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