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In 1542, Hernando deSoto, a Spanish explorer, arrived in this region with his expedition. He settled for a while in Guachoya. Later, the European-American settlement of Lake Village was established at Lake Chicot. It is situated by the Mississippi River oxbow. French colonists named Chicot in the 18th century because of its many cypress trees. It is also translated as "stumpy or knobby".
Cotton plantations were developed in the area around the Mississippi River and its major tributaries. This was the main commodity crop prior to and after the American Civil War. The majority of the population was made up of enslaved African Americans in the antebellum era. Sunnyside, Florence, Patria Pastoria Luna, Lakeport, and Luna were the major large cotton plantations.
During the war, Union and Confederate troops fought at the Battle of Old River Lake between June 5 and June 6, 1864.
Since 1940, the population of rural counties has fallen since its peak. Boll weevils had threatened the cotton crop earlier in the century. Many African Americans fled the Great Migration to seek employment opportunities in the northern and midwestern industrial areas. Moreover, farm labor has been reduced by mechanization and consolidation of farms into industrial-style farming.
