Bear Creek Fishweir #2 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Bear Creek Fishweir #2 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Bear Creek Fishweir #2 is a historic fishing weir on Bear Creek in Tishomingo State Park, northeastern Mississippi. The weir is a roughly V-shaped stone construction built from readily available local sandstone. The walls of the weir meet closer to the western bank of the creek, where they form a chute estimated to be in length. At the end of the chute, there would have been a fish trap of wooden construction, of which no traces remain. Residents almost certainly maintained the weir into the early 20th century, but it may have been built on the site of an earlier construction by Native Americans. This weir, along with Bear Creek Fishweir#1, is one of the best-preserved surviving weirs in northeastern Mississippi. Read more on Wikipedia
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