Shiloh, Mississippi

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States}}

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| image_skyline = Part of Issaquena County along the Mississippi River mapped sometime between 1866 to 1874.jpg

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| image_caption = Part of Issaquena County along the Mississippi River mapped sometime between 1866 and 1874; Col. Christmas' Shiloh Egypt plantation had cabins that had formerly been used as slave quarters, a main residence, and a cotton gin

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| subdivision_name1 = Mississippi

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| subdivision_name2 = Issaquena

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| timezone = Central (CST)

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| elevation_ft = 102

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Shiloh is a ghost town located in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. Shiloh Landing was its port on the Mississippi River.

Shiloh began as a plantation owned by Richard Christmas, who in 1860 held 160 enslaved laborers there.{{cite book | title = Annual Report of the Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, to the Secretary of Commerce | publisher = U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | year = 1889 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nY07AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP1 | page = 451}}{{cite web | title = The Richard Christmas Family | publisher = Issaquena Genealogy and History Project | url = http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msissaq2/christmas.html | accessdate = 12 July 2021}} A post office operated under the name Shiloh Landing from 1892 to 1901 and under the name Shiloh from 1901 to 1932.{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MS&county=Issaquena&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Issaquena County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=16 July 2021}}

In 1900, Shiloh had a post office and a population of 78.{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/stream/mississippicomp00rowlgoog/mississippicomp00rowlgoog_djvu.txt | volume = 2 | page = 660}}

Nothing remains of Shiloh, which today is uninhabited and covered by forest to river's edge.