Hinds County MsArchives Photo Place.....1842 Hinds County,Raymond '03
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Source:             Hinds County Gazette
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Hinds County in 1842

A lady friend sends us a copy of
The South-Western Farmer, of Oct.
7th, 1842.  The first paper established
in Raymond was the People’s Echo;
then came the Times; then the Comet;
then the South-Western Farmer in
1841.  The No. of the Farmer before
us shows that N.G. North was editor
and proprietor, with John Jenkins
associate editor.  It contains a call
for a Planter’s State Convention at
Jackson, Nov. 8th, 1842; also gives
notice of a State Agricultural Fair at
Jackson, the 9th, 10th, and 11th days
of November; also announces the 
Jefferson College Agricultural Fair, at
Washington, Adams county, the 29th
of October; also contains the by-laws
of the Mississippi State Agricultural
Society.  The people of Mississippi
were certainly more given to 
Agricultural Fairs and Societies at that
time (39 years ago) than now.  The
Farmer contains a list of letters remaining 
at the Raymond Postoffice
for three months, uncalled for, which
numbers about 200. There was then
a race track and Jocky Club at
Dillons, six miles west of Raymond,
known as Oakland course, near where
the town of Oakley is now located.
Henry Smith was then tax-collector
of Hinds county, and Joshua Mullen,
Ranger; G.W. Osborn, C. Vanderpool,
B.S.Whiting, G.W. Gibbs, M.
Mason, Cahn & Myers, were the 
merchants of Raymond, and Jackson,
had south down sheep and berkshire
pigs for sale.  Hinds county then
had 1863 white polls,
	



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