Extinct Towns and Villages
of
Tunica County

Submitted by Debora Reese

 Extract taken from Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society, By the Mississippi Historical Society, Edited by Franklin L. Riley, Secretary, Volume V, Oxford, Mississippi, 1902, pgs 375 , from chapter entitled “Extinct Towns and Villages of Mississippi” by Franklin L. Riley

Austin – The information the writer has been able to get on the old town of Austin is the following:

“The former county seat of Tunica county were all on the Mississippi river, and Austin at one time was a most important town, having a population of over 2,000, and doing a large river and inland trade.  There was also built, 1868, and expensive court house, costing some $35,000.  That building still stands in the deserted and dismantled town, and reminds the visitors of other days when the bustle and confusion of trade and traffic filled the streets.”[1]