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Fort Pillow State Historic Park seems like a beautiful place to visit and to tent camp or house in our RVs. From the Tennessee Department of Touring this 1,642-arce park is located in the Chickasaw Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River and it’s “a place where you and your group can spend days relaxing by strolling through the butterfly gardens; go swimming, or leisurely drift around the lake in a boating on just wonder within this Wildlife Observation Area.”

February being Black History month, let’s turn this tranquil described landscape into what it was like back on April 12, 18...