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Isaiah Montgomery. Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (May 21, 1847 – March 5, 1924) was founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black community. A Republican, he was a delegate to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and served as mayor of Mound Bayou. He participated in the 1890 Mississippi constitutional convention as a delegate from ...
Mound Bayou, Mississippi. / 33.88056°N 90.72806°W / 33.88056; -90.72806. Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,533 at the 2010 census, [2] down from 2,102 in 2000. It was founded as an independent black community in 1887 by former slaves led by Isaiah Montgomery.
The I.T. Montgomery House is located in an residential area south of the Mound Bayou town center, on the west side of South Main Avenue midway between Green Street West and West South Street. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof and an elevated brick foundation. It has a single-story porch extending across its front, with a hip ...
Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi opened in 1942 [2] to great fanfare by the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Everyone on the staff, including doctors and nurses, were black. The facilities included two major operating rooms, an x-ray machine, incubators, electrocardiograph, blood bank, and laboratory.
The International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor is an African-American co-ed fraternal organization best known as the sponsor of the Taborian Hospital . It was founded by Moses Dickson, an abolitionist, soldier, and clergyman of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as the International Order of Twelve in 1846 as an ...
The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, also called the Battle of Walnut Hills, [3] fought December 26–29, 1862, was the opening engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton repulsed an advance by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman that was intended to lead to the capture of ...
Occupation (s) City Librarian. Town Clerk. Tax Collector. Election Commissioner. Known for. Minnie Fisher Day (21 April 1979) Minnie Lucinda Fisher (1896-1990) was a civic worker and community activist. She was a native-born citizen of the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-Black town founded by Isaiah Montgomery in 1887.
A photo of Mound A. The site is located four miles north of the center of Vicksburg, between Chickasaw Bayou and the Illinois Central railroad tracks. Site importance. Clarence B. Moore, who visited the site in 1908, described Mound A as being 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, although by the 1950s it had been significantly reduced in height. Mound B has ...