Before the Civil War began, Mark Twain piloted his paddlewheeler steamer around what is now our Tunica Lake. In 1620 Hernando Desoto discovered the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Mississippi. Native Indian tribes, knowing the contour of the land, always built their villages on the highest lands along the Mississippi to be protected from the annual flooding. Bordeaux Point RV Park, being at an elevation of 192′, or a Memphis River Gauge of 37 feet, is the highest elevation on the Mississippi River in Tunica County.
