Anthony's Ferry, which crossed the Yazoo River just to the south of present-day Mississippi 465 and just upstream from the modern railroad bridge, connected the Valley Road (which connected Vicksburg and Yazoo City) with a good road that extended up the west bank of Deer Creek (present-day Floweree Road). This road continued north through Rolling Fork to as far as present-day Leland and Metcalfe, about 63 airline miles north of the ferry. Deer Creek was lined with righ agricultural establishments, and was one of the ost productive areas in the Mississippi Delta. Agricultural products form the Deer Creek region comprised a major source of supplies for the Confederate Army of Vicksburg before May 18, 1863, 2hen the supplies were cut off by the arrival of Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses s. Grant's Army north of Vicksburg.

This site has local significance because of its association with military activities and events that achieved or affected important local objectivies of the Vicksburg campaign.