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Port Gibson
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city in Mississippi, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Claiborne
- Mayor
- Willie A. White
- Total
- 1.76 sq mi (4.55 km )
- Land
- 1.76 sq mi (4.55 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 118 ft (36 m)
- Density
- 723.1/sq mi (279.18/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 28-59560
- Gnis feature id
- 0676254
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Port Gibson is a city and the county seat of Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Port Gibson had a population of 1,269. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River.
The first European settlers in Port Gibson were French colonists in 1729; it was part of their La Louisiane. After the United States acquired the territory from France in 1803 in the Louisiana Purchase, the town was chartered that same year. To develop cotton plantations in the area after Indian Removal of the 1830s, planters who moved to the state brought with them or imported thousands of enslaved Africans from the Upper South, disrupting many families. Well before the Civil War, the majority of the county's population were enslaved.
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