Bear Creek Fishweir No. 2
Bear Creek Fishweir #2 | |
Nearest city | Tishomingo, Mississippi |
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Coordinates | 34°36′33″N 88°11′27″W / 34.60917°N 88.19083°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Architectural style | Fishweir |
NRHP reference No. | 00001058[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 10, 2007 |
The Bear Creek Fishweir #2 is a historic fishing weir on Bear Creek in Tishomingo State Park, northeastern Mississippi. The weir is a roughly V-shaped stone construction built from readily available local sandstone. The walls of the weir meet closer to the western bank of the creek, where they form a chute estimated to be 11 metres (36 ft) in length. At the end of the chute, there would have been a fish trap of wooden construction, of which no traces remain. Residents almost certainly maintained the weir into the early 20th century, but it may have been built on the site of an earlier construction by Native Americans. This weir, along with Bear Creek Fishweir#1, is one of the best-preserved surviving weirs in northeastern Mississippi.[2]
The weir was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
See also
- Bear Creek Fishweir No. 1
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Tishomingo County, Mississippi
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Bear Creek Fishweir #2" (PDF). State of Mississippi. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
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