![]() ![]() The property is located on the East bank of the Mississippi River at Mile Marker 632, which means we are 632 miles from New Orleans by way of the Mississippi River. In 1937 the Yazoo Mississippi Delta Levee was being built and they purchased the land from my family, the Owen’s, and built the levee across the property, putting the 40 acres inside the levee. In those days a plantation couldn’t operate without a mule breeder, and that was what Grandaddy loved. Grandaddy was a Champaign mule trader and he and Mike Costalo, the King of the Gypsies, were mule suppliers. In 1934 my Grandfather John Tait bought this property from the Woolfolk family and became a farmer. Before the Civil War began, Mark Twain piloted his paddlewheeler steamer around what is now our Tunica Lake. In 1620 Hernando Desoto discovered the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Mississippi. Native Indian tribes, knowing the contour of the land, always built their villages on the highest lands along the Mississippi to be protected from the annual flooding. Bordeaux Point RV Park, being at an elevation of 192′, or a Memphis River Gauge of 37 feet, is the highest elevation on the Mississippi River in Tunica County.
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