Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Plantersville ca. 1916

"Plantersville, an incorporated post-town in Lee county, on the St. Louis and San Francisco R. R., three miles southeast of Tupelo the county seat and nearest banking town. The town lies in an artesian basin and there are a number of wells here, affording a supply of soft, pure water, obtained at a depth of from 300 to 400 feet. It has a money order postoffice, an express office, 3 stores, a saw mill, a cotton gin, a church and a school. The population in 1900 was 187."

From 'Mississippi,' edited by Dunbar Rowland and published by the Southern Historical Association in 1916.

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