{{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Liverpool, Mississippi |settlement_type = [[Ghost town]] |image_skyline = |image_caption = |pushpin_map = Mississippi |pushpin_label = Liverpool, Mississippi |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Mississippi |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = [[U.S. state|State]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Mississippi]] |subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Mississippi|County]] |subdivision_name2 = [[Yazoo County, Mississippi|Yazoo]] |timezone = [[Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]] |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = 328 |coordinates = {{coord|32|42|47|N|90|30|05|W|region:US-MS|display=inline,title}} |blank_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank_info = 686677<ref name=GNIS1>{{gnis|686677|Liverpool (historical)}}</ref> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }}
'''Liverpool''' is a [[ghost town]] in [[Yazoo County, Mississippi]], United States. '''Liverpool Landing''', the settlement's port on the [[Yazoo River]], was located {{convert|0.9|mi|km|abbr=on}} west of Liverpool.<ref name=GNIS2>{{gnis|707885|Liverpool Landing}}</ref>
Liverpool Road runs through the former settlement, and [[Mississippi Highway 3]] runs between the former settlement and its river landing.
==History== [[File:Yazoo River 1863 Porter.jpg|thumb|left|Map from 1863 showing Liverpool]]
During the early and mid-1800s, Liverpool Landing was "the hub of a bustling community, a steamboat stop and a shipping point for cotton".<ref name="Ewing">{{cite web | last = Ewing | first = Jim | title = Mississippi Byways | publisher = Rootsweb | url = http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msyazoo/Liverpool_Landing.htm | accessdate = March 14, 2015}}</ref>
During the [[American Civil War]], Liverpool Landing's location at a bend in the Yazoo River made it an important defensive location for [[Confederate Army]] forces. Rugged, brush-covered hills rose abruptly on the eastern bank of the river, and one hill named "Rudloff Ridge" was selected for a defensive position.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book | last = Smith, Jr. | first = Myron J. | title = The Fight for the Yazoo, August 1862-July 1864: Swamps, Forts and Fleets on Vicksburg's Northern Flank | publisher = McFarland | year = 2012 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=70GNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 | pages = 40| isbn = 9780786491100 }}</ref>
In June 1862, Confederate forces constructed a log chain raft across the Yazoo River at Liverpool Landing, in order to obstruct the movement of large Union Army ships.<ref name="Owens">{{cite book | last = Owens | first = Harry P. | title = Steamboats & Cotton Economy | publisher = University Press of Mississippi | year = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B7Kl9mLtXxIC&pg=PP1 | pages = 45, 47, 62| isbn = 9781617034817 }}</ref> The ''New York Times'' described the raft as "a perfect lock against ascending boats".<ref name="Smith"/> The Confederate vessels ''[[CSS Arkansas|Arkansas]]'', ''General Clark'', ''[[CSS General Earl Van Dorn|General Earl Van Dorn]]'', [[CSS Livingston|''Livingston'']], ''Mobile'', and ''[[CSS General Polk|Polk]]'' were sent to defend the raft.<ref name="Owens"/>
Another notable river battle occurred at Liverpool Landing from May 20 to 23, 1863, when Confederate commander [[William Wirt Adams]] engaged Federal Army gunboats there.<ref name="Rowland">{{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://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/548960-redirection | volume = 2 | page = 911}}</ref>
The Confederate vessels ''[[CSS Ivy|Ivy]]'' and ''Capitol'' were scuttled at Liverpool Landing in an effort to obstruct the river.<ref name="Owens"/><ref>{{cite book | title = Annual Reports | publisher = United States War Department | year = 1873 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KDQvzQN_P94C&pg=PP1 | pages = 483}}</ref>
Liverpool and Liverpool Landing declined following the Civil War, when railroads largely replaced riverboat traffic.<ref name="Ewing"/>
The Liverpool Baptist Church and Cemetery is still located at the former settlement.<ref name=GNIS3>{{gnis|672731|Liverpool Church}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Yazoo County, Mississippi}}
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[[Category:Former populated places in Yazoo County, Mississippi]] [[Category:Ghost towns in Mississippi]]