The Chickasaw Bluff is the high ground rising about 50 to 200 feet (20–60 m) above the Mississippi River flood plain between Fulton in Lauderdale County, Tennessee and Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee.[1][2]
This elevation, shaped as four bluffs, is named for the Chickasaw people. Known in the 19th century as one of the Five Civilized Nations in the Southeast, they occupied much of this area in western Tennessee and Mississippi. By their control of the bluffs, they could impede French river traffic in the 18th century when the peoples were at war.
- ^ Knox, Ray (1995). The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide. Gutenberg Richter Publications. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-934426-42-8.
- ^ Safford, James (1869). The Geology of Tennessee. S. C. Mercer, Nashville. pp. 112–113. OCLC 01448824.