Editing DeSoto County, Mississippi (section)

===DeSoto County Museum===
[[File:Log House Hernando MS 04.jpg|thumb|DeSoto County Museum and 18th-century French colonial-style log house]]

A popular attraction is the DeSoto County Museum located in the county seat of Hernando. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10–5. Admission is free but donations are encouraged. Exhibits include displays on Hernando DeSoto, Civil War history, French colonial and American antebellum homes of the county, civil rights, and the history of each of the county's municipalities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.desotomuseum.org/#/|title=DeSoto County Museum - Explore our heritage|last=Bryant|first=Josh|website=www.desotomuseum.org|access-date=March 6, 2018}}</ref>

An eighteenth-century French colonial log house (see photo to the right) has been preserved from the time of French trading and settlement along the Mississippi. This house is similar in style to several French colonial houses preserved in [[Ste. Genevieve, Missouri]], where many French settled after France ceded its territory east of the Mississippi to Great Britain following its defeat in the [[Seven Years' War]].