The Booth Legend
Official history says John Wilkes Booth died in Virginia. Guntown has another story.
Open the Booth file
North Mississippi memory
Guntown.us
Local lore, family memory, rail lines, cemeteries, and the North Mississippi stories that would not stay buried.
Guntown.us is an independent local-history, local-lore, oral-history, and preservation project. It is not the official municipal website for the Town of Guntown, not a conspiracy site, not a treasure-hunting site, not a Confederate nostalgia site, and not a music site for launch.
Public launch pillars
Stories held carefully, not flattened into proof.
The archive distinguishes official record, sourced local lore, oral history, family memory, field observation, physical artifact, and unverified claim before interpretation begins.
Brice's Crossroads
The battle did not end at the crossroads. The retreat, the road, and the wet bottomlands still hold memory.
Open the Brice fileThe Land Families
Agnew, Snell, McElroy, and other local names connect battlefield history to farms, cemeteries, bridges, and stories still living in family memory.
Trace the placesSource Labels
Every story is labeled: official record, sourced lore, oral history, family memory, field observation, physical artifact, or unverified lead.
Review the claimsHeritage corridor / civic tourism vision
Guntown is the side quest people remember.
Minutes from Brice's Crossroads, Guntown preserves one of Mississippi's strangest Lincoln-assassination legends and sits in the middle of a wider landscape of battlefield memory, family stories, old roads, and vanished places.
The long-term civic opportunity is careful: protect sensitive sites, document public artifacts, connect Guntown to Tupelo, Brice's Crossroads, Corinth, and Shiloh, and keep private land, cemeteries, descendants, and possible archaeological sites out of harm's way.
Public / private / sealed
The archive can preserve leads without exposing them.
Public pages keep the broad story legible. Restricted and sealed materials stay out of public copy when they could invite trespass, looting, cemetery disturbance, or pressure on living people.
General Booth lore, Brice's Crossroads context, sourced official history, public markers, and the heritage-corridor vision.
Landowner identity, living-source details, museum negotiation details, exact bridge/fence-line findspots, and unverified allegations.
Exact suspected grave/cemetery locations, Hatchie Bottom parcel geometry, payroll-search geometry, and any location likely to invite digging or disturbance.
This site presents local lore, family memory, field notes, and historical research in progress. It should not be read as an official historical finding or as the official position of the Town of Guntown, any cemetery, landowner, public agency, or battlefield organization.