Talk:Ellis Cliffs, Mississippi

FACTS ABOUT ELLIS CLIFFS PLANTATION

HELLO MAGNOLIA........ I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO CORRECT SOME OBVIOUS ERRORS IN THE ARTICLE ON ELLIS CLIFFS PLANTATION (WHICH, BECAUSE IT WAS NAMED ON OLD MAPS HAS OFTEN BEEN MISTAKEN FOR A TOWN OR SETTLEMENT). THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN IN MY FAMILY'S POSSESSION SINCE THE 1760'S AND THERE ARE NO PUBLICATIONS CONTAINING RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPERTY. THEREFORE, I, AS THE MANAGER OF THE PROPERTY FOR THE LAST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS, HAVE PROVIDED INFORMATION TO CORRECT FABRICATIONS PRESENTED ON WIKIPEDIA. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THERE WAS NEVER A TOWN OR ANY SORT OF SETTLEMENT, OTHER THAN A SLAVE LABOR PLANTATION THAT ENGAGED IN HARVESTING OF TIMBER. NO OTHER PERSON THAN DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD ELLIS EVER OWNED AN INCH OF THE LAND AT THIS LOCATION. THERE WAS NO TOWN THERE!

ONE OF THE SOURCES USED WAS MARY C. MILLER, A PHYSICIAN AND AUTHOR OF TWO VOLUMES ON LOST MANSIONS OF MS -- HER INFORMATION ON ELLIS CLIFFS IS NOT ACCURATE -- NOT TRUE - SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE PROPERTY AT ALL -- HAS NEVER BEEN THERE AND DID NO PROPER RESEARCH TO LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT IT!

ANY IDIOT CAN LOOK AT A MAP AND SEE THAT THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED TO THE EAST OF ST. CATHERINE CREEK REFUGE -- MAKING THE REFUGE TO THE WEST OF ELLIS CLIFFS, NOT TO THE NORTH!!!! ALSO, ANY IDIOT KNOWS THAT THERE IS NO DEPOSIT OF CHALK IN THIS AREA OF MISSISSIPPI --- IT WAS WHITE SAND THE RIVER TRAVELERS WERE SEEING - NOT CHALK!!!!!!!! I AM PROBABLY THE ONLY LIVING PERSON WHO HAS SEEN THOSE SANDY HILLS AND KNOWN WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT -- AS THE COUNTY ROAD CREW ONCE BULLDOZED AWAY A LANDFILL OF DEBRIS DEPOSITED ALONG THE BLUFF BY LOCALS - UNCOVERING THAT WHITE, WHITE SAND AND CAUSING SERIOUS EROSION PROBLEMS IN DOING SO!

HUTCHINS' LANDING, ON THE OTHER HAND, WAS A SETTLEMENT - AN OCCUPIED TOWN UNTIL THE LATE 1940'S -- LOCATED DIRECTLY WEST (NOT SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST) OF ELLIS CLIFFS, ON A PORTION OF WHAT IS NOW THE ST. CATHERINE CREEK REFUGE -- THE CEMETERY FOR HUTCHINS' LANDING IS LOCATED ON THE ESCARPMENT OF THE BLUFF OF ELLIS CLIFFS - I HAD NOT CORRECTED THIS "ERROR" BECAUSE I BECAME TOO FRUSTRATED WITH THE UTTER STUPIDITY OF WHOEVER WROTE THIS ARTICLE TRYING TO WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH THEY CLEARLY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT --- THE ARTICLE WRITER OBVIOUSLY USED OLD MAPS THAT MARKED HAPHAZARDLY WHERE THE PLANTATION AND THE SANDY CLIFFS "ARE" STILL LOCATED. PUTTING A NAME ON A MAP DOES NOT MAKE THAT SPOT A TOWN!

THE ONLY BIT OF INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BENEFIT FROM A "SOURCE" IS THE PORTION ABOUT THE GOOD WHITE SAND BEING USE FOR THE US MINT IN NOLA - THIS CAN BE FOUND THE IN THE 25 BOXES OF PAPERS HOUSED IN THE SPECIAL MANUSCRIPTS DEPARTMENT AT TULANE UNIVERSITY THAT CAME FROM LAUREL HILL PLANTATION, ANOTHER OF RICHARD ELLIS'S PROPERTIES, WHICH ADJOINS ELLIS CLIFFS TO THE NORTH (AS THE REFUGE DOES NOT!).

I FOUND IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE THESE "TALK" PAGES FOR WIKIPEDIA --- HOPE THIS HAS REACHED THE RIGHT PERSON — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmoody1054 (talk • contribs) 00:18, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

@Kmoody1054: Thank you for taking the time to write. First, please stop writing in capital letters and describing others as idiots. Second, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which gets its information from reliable sources. That means that original research and personal experience such as yours is usually quickly deleted, as it is unreliable. Please take a moment to read Wikipedia:Verifiability, and try to find a source for your information before adding it to the article. Until then, please do not delete the sourced information that is there. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:47, 26 June 2017 (UTC)