Mississippi History Lesson.

Went out this weekend a couple times with some of the guys I ride with. We rode a route I developed by putting several of the usual rides together and adding a significant jaunt in to the back woods of Mississippi to round it out. Here is a link to the entire route map. It came out to right at 180 miles door to door. Here are a few of the pictures:

First, a pair of pictures of me demonstrating how and how not to cross a creek on a motorcycle:



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Next, after bombing around in the woods, we happened to notice a graveyard off the side of one of the dirt roads. We stopped to check it out today and it was pretty cool. It is the McGehee family graveyard and is on the grounds of their plantation. Said plantation was razed by Union troops in 1863. Here's a short blurb on it.

"Bowling Green Cemetery -Across the road from the ruins of the early Bowling Green Plantation House which was burned in 1864 by the Yankees. This is still in use by the McGehee family. Property of Miss Mary McGehee and Mrs. Elizabeth McGehee Watt."

Lots to read if you Google.

And a link to a neat little history of the 21st Mississippi Infantry (See Edward J. McGehee's stone)

Anyway, the oldest burial date we found was 1820 and the latest was 1993. It is remarkably well kept to a site as old as it is. Here are the pictures.