Adams County, Mississippi: History
Adams County was created on April 2, 1799, from part of Pickering Territorial County. The county was organized eighteen years before Mississippi became a state. Five Mississippi governors have come from Adams County: David Holmes, George Poindexter, John A. Quitman, Gerard Brandon, and William Allain.
In 1860, before the American Civil War, Adams County had one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the United States, much of it derived from the plantation economy and the labor of enslaved African Americans.