Tunica County, Mississippi

Tunica County administrative offices are located at 1058 South Court Street, Tunica, MS 38676; phone: 662-363-1465.

The county was established in 1836. Early settlers included: S. H. Fletcher, J. C. Nelson, J. S. McPeak, Ransom H. Byrn, Walter H. Bell, R. H. Hunphreys, Lorenzo A. Besancon, S. May, Thomas M. Fletcher, James F. Boren, and Richard Abbay. [1]

1. Robert Lowry and William H. McCardle, A History of Mississippi from the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto ... , R. H. Henry & Co., Jackson, Mississippi, 1891.