Chucalissa Indian

Chucalissa Indian is a Tennessee historical marker in Shelby County.

Shelby Co, TN 14 (US 61), at Town junction w/Mitchell Rd.

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The site of an ancient ceremonial center which flourished from 1000-1600 A. D. It may have been one of the towns visited by DeSoto when he first saw the Mississippi River in 1854. It was part of a highly developed agricultural province which DeSoto called Quiz Quiz and the place where he built boats with which to cross the Mississippi River.

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1835 · Chickasaw Cession, Mississippi (1835) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1916 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1925 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1939 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Chucalissa Indian

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