Hobbs Island, Madison County. Site of Chickasaw Old Fields and where the Spanish deserters Maldonado and de la Cabra built their would-be chiefdom deep in the virgin heart of the Nickajack. This was before the land became ravaged by the pigs and plague, which had cast the New World itself forever out of Paradise.
Burial mound of the Koasati located on Hobbs Island. The Koasati stock and culture was subsumed into the Chicaza (Chickasaw) following the great social and ecological upheaval of the Columbian Exchange.
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