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Historical Roadside Marker
Location:
N 33º 53.975 W 088 º 19.978
US Highway 278
Monroe County, Mississippi
Wise’s Gap, 1816
The first community in N. Miss. Begun here by John Wise in 1816, had stores, a cemetery, a campground, a church called “Uncle Jimmy Wise’s Meetinghouse, a blacksmith shop in which the future Governor Tucker worked.
Date Visited and/or Photographed: April 5, 2008
Notes:
Governor Tucker mentioned here is the thirteenth governor of Mississippi Tilghman Tucker. Governor Tucker and his wife was the first couple to occupy the Mississippi Governors Mansion. Tucker was born February 2, 1802 in North Carolina. With his family he made the Carolina to Alabama to Mississippi migration that along the route took by many of our ancestors. He worked as a blacksmith at Wise’s Gap before reading law under Judge Daniel W. Wright in Hamilton in Monroe County. He opened his first law practice in Columbus and then in 1831 entered started a political career that would include stints in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate, a term as Governor, and one term in the United States Senate. He died April 3, 1855.
Source:
Sansing, David. At Mississippi History No, http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/, accessed April7, 2008
Location:
N 33º 53.975 W 088 º 19.978
US Highway 278
Monroe County, Mississippi
Wise’s Gap, 1816
The first community in N. Miss. Begun here by John Wise in 1816, had stores, a cemetery, a campground, a church called “Uncle Jimmy Wise’s Meetinghouse, a blacksmith shop in which the future Governor Tucker worked.
Date Visited and/or Photographed: April 5, 2008
Notes:
Governor Tucker mentioned here is the thirteenth governor of Mississippi Tilghman Tucker. Governor Tucker and his wife was the first couple to occupy the Mississippi Governors Mansion. Tucker was born February 2, 1802 in North Carolina. With his family he made the Carolina to Alabama to Mississippi migration that along the route took by many of our ancestors. He worked as a blacksmith at Wise’s Gap before reading law under Judge Daniel W. Wright in Hamilton in Monroe County. He opened his first law practice in Columbus and then in 1831 entered started a political career that would include stints in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate, a term as Governor, and one term in the United States Senate. He died April 3, 1855.
Source:
Sansing, David. At Mississippi History No, http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/, accessed April7, 2008
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