A Brief Introduction:
Pierce County is a very scenic and key area to the development of the northern Mississippi. The county today has a total land area of 576 sq. miles and is home to just over 41,000 people. Consisting of 6 villages, 13 towns, only 2 cities, and many unincorporated settlements Pierce County is very rural and has made grown largely due to the trapping, lumber, dairy, fertile soil, tourism, Fishing, mining industries, and the easy access to waterways.
March 14, 1853 Named after the recently elected 14th president of the United States of America Franklin Pierce the county got its current name. Originally the though the county was just a portion of the larger St. Croix county, and later Elizabeth county. Today the county seat is in Ellsworth as it is closest to the geographical center of the county, making it easier back then for people to travel to the court house.
Before Pierce County became what it is today it had many cultures who inhabited the resource rich and fertile lands. It is thought that the first known arrivals to the area were about 14,000 years ago (12,000 BC) to follow large game that was moving with the ice age of the time. Although evidence of even earlier people living in the area is also thought to have been destroyed by settlers, farming, and looting. Due to the nomadic nature of the Archaic peoples of that time there probably was not much left around to look for either way. Although there is evidence of Native American tribes using small copper tools and hunting with spear points dating back to 8,000 BC. It is thought threw spoken history and evidence that by 1,000 BC these natives were starting to become less nomadic and developed more seasonal shelters down by the rivers in the summer mont...
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Before recorded history, people lived along the shores of Henderson Inlet. These people were the Nisqually. The historical evidence of Nisqually habitation in the area is the presence of a shell midden on lower Chapman Bay by archaeological explorations. The natives lived in small groups, their livelihood was determined by availability of food and the local topography. Because a fresh water stream meant a source of potable water and proximity to salmon runs, these small groups were always located along a steam or near its mouth. Marian Smith, an ethnologist, provided a more exact location as “on South Bay or Henderson Inlet between the creek at the head and that on the south.” She called this small group tuts’e’tcaxt. While the exact location of this small group is no longer known, some uncertain conclusions can be made about Native American activity in the Woodard Bay area. Tuts’e’tcaxt was a permanent village, consisting of two cedar plank houses that measured approximately 30 feet by 100 feet. Here the natives lived during the severe winter months. (Andrew Poultridge. 1991)
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