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Land For Sale in The Mississippi Delta
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Welcome
Thacker Mountain Lodge offers Mississippi Delta Guided duck hunts. Our Mississippi Delta Guided hunts offer an opportunity to hunt Delta ducks where you can harvest lots of delta ducks and some mallard ducks. Our Mississippi Guided duck hunts let you hunt ducks in the pristine Mississippi Delta area where the right soil and food sources let the duck population reach the maximum capacity of the land. On our Delta guided duck hunts we can promise a quality duck hunting time and lots of duck hunting memories. When you choose Delta duck hunts remember that the Delta ducks are usually here when the weather gets right, so be ready when the duck hunting is right. So, for our Mississippi guided duck hunts we encourage you to shoot a limit of greenheads when possible. Try our Mississippi guided hunts this fall. Bring your friends or your family and experience Mississippi duck hunting at its best. Duck hunting is what we do best! Our main duck hole is Mallard Slough, a 700 acre flooded corn field, located next to Mackintosh Scatters in Greenwood, Mississippi. This duck hunting property has been privately duck hunted for years and just turned over to us for this fall duck season. This duck hole is unbelievable.
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Mississippi Delta
Thacker Mountain Lodge , property division offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property located in the Mississippi Delta. This is a distinct northwest section of the state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. Technically not a delta but part of an alluvial plain, it has been said that the Delta "begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel (in Memphis) and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg" (various writers have been attributed with composing this memorable line, but often David Cohn is credited with the saying. (David Cohn, Where I was Born and Raised, 1948) Created by regular flooding over thousands of years, this region is remarkably flat and contains some of the most fertile soil in the world. Thacker Mountain Lodge offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property. In the following counties: Washington, DeSoto, Humphreys, Carroll, Issaquena, Panola, Quitman, Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Sunflower, Sharkey, Tunica, Tallahatchie, Holmes, Yazoo, and Warren.
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Thacker Mountain Lodge
Need Mississippi hunting leases, mid-south hunting and fishing spots, Mississippi real estate, homes, farms, ranches, and Mississippi deer hunting, deer hunting land for sale in Mississippi, Thacker Mountain Lodge land and timber property division can supply what you need.
If you and your investment business partners are looking for hunting properties, mid –sized hunting property for sale in Mississippi, southern land for sale, Mississippi land and timber, Mississippi forestry land, Mississippi timberland, Mississippi delta hunting leases, or Mississippi ranches, you have come to the right spot Thacker mountain Lodge timber and land, property division is the perfect investment timberland company in Mississippi to help you with your needs. Thacker Mountain Lodge land and timber property division has for sale Mississippi timberland, for sale commercial property, for sale Mississippi land, for sale Mississippi real estate, for sale Mississippi property, for sale Mississippi acreage , for sale Mississippi farms, for sale oxford Mississippi real estate, for sale oxford Mississippi homes, for sale oxford Mississippi football rentals, for sale oxford Mississippi condos, for sale oxford Mississippi retirement homes, for sale Mississippi recreational property, for sale Mississippi investment property, for sale delta duck hunting property, for sale Mississippi duck hunting property, for sale Mississippi outdoor property, for sale Mississippi country homes, Thacker Mountain Lodge land and timber property division has for sale just about any Mississippi land, timber, real estate , commercial, or property needs you might have.
Call The Thacker Mountain Lodge Land and Timber Property Division today or email us at
properties@thackermountainlodge.com
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Delta Mississippi Hunting Property
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The springtime sun is as yellow as a daffodil floating in a sea of blue. From high above, it reaches down to warm a vast expanse of smoky-black earth that smells like river. The cotton is flourishing — clear-to-the-horizon fields of it are broken by groves of pecan trees, whispering to each other in a rustle of leaves. And though you can't see Old Man hidden behind the levee, you can feel his presence--the twisting, turning, mighty, muddy presence of the Mississippi River.
-Valerie Fraser Luesse
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Mississippi Delta Blues Music
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The Delta is strongly associated with the origins of several genres of popular music, including the Delta blues, jazz, and rock and roll. The music came out of the struggles of lives in which poverty and hardship were ever present for mostly black sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
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Festivals are important to the Mississippi Delta region, allowing each town or community the opportunity to celebrate their unique heritage. The Mississippi Delta is the setting for several stories by William Faulkner, most notably "The Bear" from Go Down, Moses.
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 Agriculture and The Delta Economy
For over two centuries, agriculture has been the mainstay of the Delta economy. Sugar cane and rice were introduced to the region by European settlers from the Caribbean in the 18th century. Sugar and rice production were centered in southern Louisiana, and later in the Arkansas Delta. Thacker Mountain Lodge , property division offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property in these areas.
Early agriculture also included limited tobacco production in the Natchez area and indigo in the lower Mississippi. What began as back bending land clearing by yeoman farmers supported by extensive families was expanded into a labor-intensive plantation system based dependent on the labor of enslaved Native Americans, who were rapidly succeeded in the 18th century by enslaved Africans. Thousands of Africans were captured, sold and transported as slaves from West Africa. Many entered the Mississippi Delta through the slave market at New Orleans. As slavery was institutionalized as a heritable status, Africans and African Americans for generations worked the commodity plantations, which they made extremely profitable. African laborers brought critical knowledge and techniques for the cultivation and processing of both rice and indigo. Thacker Mountain Lodge , property division offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property that are from these areas.
The invention of the cotton gin in the early 19th century enabled the widespread production of short-staple cotton, which until then had been too labor-intensive to process. By the early 19th century, cotton had become the Delta’s premier crop, for which there was international demand. It would remain so until well after the American Civil War, even in an era of falling cotton prices. Though cotton planters believed that the alluvial soils of the Mississippi Delta region would always renew, the agricultural boom from the 1830s to the late 1850s caused extensive soil exhaustion and erosion. Lacking agricultural research, planters continued to raise cotton the same way after the Civil War. Thacker Mountain Lodge , property division offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property, and cotton plantations.
Plantations before the war were generally developed on ridges near the rivers, which provided transportation of products to market. At the end of the Civil War, most of the bottomlands behind the ridges were still covered in heavy dense growth of trees, bushes and vines. Most of the acreage of the Delta was uncultivated.
Following the Civil War, 90 percent of the bottomlands in Mississippi were still undeveloped. This led to the state attracting people to its frontier, where their labor in clearing land could be traded for purchase of land. Tens of thousands of migrants, both black and white, were attracted to the area. By the end of the century, two-thirds of the independent farmers in the Mississippi Delta were black. The extended low price of cotton had caused many to go deeply into debt, however, and gradually they had to sell off their lands. From 1910-1920, the first and second generations of African Americans after slavery lost their stake in the land and had to resort to sharecropping and tenant farming to survive.
Sharecropping and tenant farming replaced the slave-dependent, labor-intensive plantation system. This labor system inhibited the use of progressive agricultural techniques. In the late 19th century, the clearing and drainage of wetlands, especially in Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel, increased lands available for tenant farming and sharecropping.
Mechanization starting in the 1930s altered agricultural economics again. Thousands of laborers were no longer needed and migrated North in the Great Migration. During the late 20th century, there was an increasing dominance of lower Delta agriculture by families and nonresident corporate entities that held large landholdings. Their operations are heavily mechanized with low labor costs. Such farm entities are capital-intensive, where hundreds and thousands of acres are used to produce market-driven crops such as cotton, sugar, rice, and soybeans. Thacker Mountain Lodge , property division offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property.
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Mechanization
During the 1920s and 1930s, in the aftermath of the increasing mechanization of Delta farms, displaced whites and African-Americans began to leave the land and move to towns and cities. It was not until the Great Depression years of the 1930s and later that large-scale farm mechanization came to the region. The mechanization of agriculture and the availability of domestic work outside the Delta spurred the migration of Delta residents out of the region. Farming was unable to absorb the available labor force and entire families moved together.From the late 1930s through the 1950s, the Delta experienced an agriculture boom, as wartime needs followed by reconstruction in Europe expanded the demand for the Delta region’s farm products. As the mechanization of agriculture continued, women continued to leave the fields and go into service work, while the men drove tractors and worked on the farms. From the 1960s through the 1990s, thousands of small farms and dwellings in the Delta region were absorbed by large corporate-owned agribusinesses, and the smallest Delta communities have stagnated. Thacker Mountain Lodge , property division offers, for sale Premium Mississippi, Delta, and Mid-South, land, ranches, farms, investment, recreational, timberland, and commercial property.
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Mississippi Ecology
Remnants of the region’s agrarian heritage are scattered along the highways and byways of the lower Delta. Larger communities have survived by fostering economic development in education, government, and medicine. Other endeavors such as catfish, poultry, rice, corn, and soybean farming have assumed greater importance. Today, the monetary value of these crops rivals that of cotton production in the lower Mississippi Delta. Shifts away from the river as a main transportation and trading route to railroads and, more significantly, highways, has made the river cities struggle for new roles and businesses.
In recent years, due to the growth of the automobile industry in the South, many parts suppliers have opened facilities in the Delta (as well as on the Arkansas Delta side of the Mississippi River, another area of high poverty). Moreover, the 1990s legalization of casino gambling in Mississippi has boosted the Delta's economy, particularly in the areas of Tunica and Vicksburg.A large cultural influence in the region is its history of hunting and fishing. Hunting in the Delta is primarily for game such as whitetail deer, wild turkey, and waterfowl, along with many small game species (squirrel, rabbit, dove, quail, raccoon, etc.) For many years the hunting and fishing have also attracted visitors in the regional tourism economy.
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