Guntown
The town is the frame for the archive: small enough for family recollection to matter, old enough for names and places to gather additional meanings.
Public place index
Places
These are not presented as proof points. They are public-safe place cards where Guntown-area traditions become legible: town, track, battlefield, cemetery, marker, bridge question, and corridor memory.
Brice's Crossroads
The battlefield near Guntown anchors the wider archive in documented Civil War history, retreat-corridor memory, cemetery leads, and family land questions.
Dr. Booth's Home
The reported family tradition places an upstairs hiding place in Dr. John Fletcher Booth's home. Later accounts say the home burned. The exact site should be treated as a research question until better local documentation is found.
Smith Cemetery
Smith Cemetery is connected to the Booth legend through a claimed marker or grave tradition. No exact private directions are published while access, ownership, and cemetery-status questions remain open.
Bethany Cemetery / 1953 Remains
The Brice file now treats the 1953 Tishomingo Creek remains and later Bethany Cemetery reburial as a major document-trail lead.
Rev. Agnew House Site
The Agnew site is a public landscape marker for retreat-corridor study. Exact private artifact claims and fieldwork details stay out of public copy.
Guntown Depot / Historic Building
Rail and depot memory help frame movement, arrival, and civic-tourism possibility. The rail angle is contextual, not proof of the Booth story.
Historic Guntown Jail
The old jail belongs in the civic-preservation conversation as a visible local artifact that could connect town memory to a future heritage route.
Tupelo / Brice's / Corinth / Shiloh
Guntown can sit as an unexpected stop inside an existing North Mississippi route, connecting battlefield travel to local lore and preservation.
Not public here: exact suspected cemetery or grave locations, Hatchie Bottom parcels, payroll geometry, exact bridge-find locations, suspected roadside grave coordinates, living-source locations, or private-land boundaries.
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.