# Preliminary Notes on a Possible Brice's Crossroads Retreat Corridor and Local Memory Archive

Private-facing outline for a future Brice's Crossroads Foundation packet. This is not a public claim of proof.

## 1. Purpose

Open a careful conversation about local memory, family artifact leads, map discrepancies, cemetery questions, and retreat-corridor research.

## 2. Sources gathered so far

- Official Brice's Crossroads history sources.
- Family oral-history notes.
- Kerry field notes.
- Museum pocket-watch lead.
- 1953 Tishomingo Creek remains lead.
- Map and bridge-discrepancy leads.

## 3. Rev. Agnew site connection

The Agnew site is treated as a public landscape marker and potential corridor anchor. Exact field details remain private.

## 4. Bridge/fence-line discrepancy

Compare the Memphis-library fence-line map with later bridge interpretation maps and field observations.

## 5. 1953 Tishomingo Creek remains / museum pocket watch lead

Request records for the remains, Bethany Cemetery reburial, and the reported Howard Snell pocket-watch donation.

## 6. Hatchie Bottom retreat/discard corridor theory

Handle privately. Do not include exact parcels, coordinates, or artifact findspots in public material.

## 7. Sensitive locations and non-public handling

Keep suspected graves, sealed cemetery locations, private parcels, payroll geometry, and living-source details sealed.

## 8. Suggested next steps

- Private meeting with Foundation director.
- Museum accession review.
- Map comparison.
- Permission-based field survey.
- Cemetery preservation discussion.
- Oral-history capture.