Second Creek (Mississippi)
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Second Creek is a waterway in the southern section of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.[1] Second Creek is tributary to the Homochitto River.[2]: 15 It enters the Homochitto near U.S. Route 61 bridge at Doloroso.[3]
The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto visited what is called White Apple Village, the settlement of Natchez chief Great Sun, along Second Creek, in approximately 1541.[4]: 5 In the 1790s, pollution from the process of producing indigo dye killed many of the fish that lived in Second Creek.[5] An attempted slave revolt, sometimes known as the Second Creek Slave Conspiracy, was suppressed in the vicinity of Second Creek in 1860.[6]
