Rowland's History of Miscellaneous Itawamba County, Missisippi Towns Source: Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. 3 vols. Atlanta: Southern Historical Publishing Association, 1907. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Vol. 1, p. 19 Abney, a post-hamlet in the western part of Itawamba county, 6 miles southwest of Fulton, the county seat. Population in 1900 was 36. Vol. 1, p. 118 Aquila, a postoffice in the northeastern part of Itawamba county, about 13 miles northeast of Fulton, the county seat. Population in 1900, 60. Vol. 1, p. 259 Bolands, a hamlet in the southwestern part of Itawamba county. The postoffice has been discontinued and mail now goes to Rands. Population in 1900, 26. Vol. 1, p. 360 Cardsville, a post-hamlet in the south-central part of Itawamba county, on the west bank of the Tombigbee river, distant about 8 miles from Fulton, the county seat. Vol. 1, p. 450 Clay, a post-hamlet of Itawamba county, 6 miles east of Fulton, the county seat. Vol. 1, p. 454 Cliff, a post-hamlet in the north-central part of Itawamba county, 12 miles north of Fulton, the county seat. Population in 1900, 20. Vol. 1, p. 653 Dorsey, a postoffice in the west-central part of Itawamba county, 6 miles from Fulton, the county seat. It is a money order office. Vol. 1, p. 757 Fulton, the capital of Itawamba county, is an incorporated post-town on or near the east bank of the Tombigbee river, 50 miles south of Corinth and 58 miles north of Columbus. Tupelo is the nearest railroad town. It lies in a good farming district. Considerable lumbering is done here. It has a church, a bank and a newspaper, the Herald, a Democratic weekly established in 1886. A branch of the Bank of Tupelo was established in 1905. Population in 1900, 171. The population in 1906 was estimated at 250. Vol. 1, p. 873 Hodges, a postoffice in the northeastern part of Itawamba county, about 16 miles from Fulton, the county seat. Vol. 1, p. 945 Ironwood Bluff, an extinct town in Itawamba county which existed before the War. It was located on the west side of the Tombigbee river, about 12 miles south of Fulton, the county seat. Vol. 1, p. 946 Ita, a hamlet of Itawamba county, 6 miles north of Fulton, the county seat. The postoffice at this place was discontinued in 1905, and it now has rural free delivery from Fulton. Population in 1900, 24. Vol. 1, p. 1002 Kirkville, a post-hamlet in the northwestern part of Itawamba county, 15 miles north, northwest of Fulton, the county seat, and 8 miles east of Baldwyn, on the M. & O. R. R., the nearest railroad and banking town. Population in 1900, 50; in 1906 its population was estimated at 100. Vol. 2, p. 147 Lunch, a postoffice of Itawamba county, 14 miles north of Fulton, the county seat. Vol. 2, p. 165 Mantachie, an incorporated village in the western part of Itawamba county, 6 miles northwest of Fulton, the county seat, and 14 miles northeast of Tupelo, the nearest railroad and telegraph town. Fulton is the nearest banking town. Population in 1900, 150. Vol. 2, p. 283 Morganton, a post-hamlet of Itawamba county, 10 miles south of Fulton, the county seat. The postoffice here was discontinued in 1905, and it now has rural free delivery from Smithville in Monroe county. Vol. 2, p. 499 Raburnville, a hamlet in the central part of Itawamba county, 4 miles north of Fulton, the county seat. The postoffice was recently discontinued at this place, and it now has rural free delivery from Fulton. Population in 1900, 20. Vol. 2, p. 519 Rara Avis, a post-hamlet in the eastern part of Itawamba county, 13 miles east of Fulton, the county seat, and about 30 miles east of Tupelo, the nearest railroad town. It has a money order postoffice. Population in 1900, 100. Fulton is the nearest banking town. Ratliff, a post-hamlet in the northwestern part of Itawamba county, about 12 miles from Fulton, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice. Population in 1900, 61. Vol. 2, p. 822 Tremont, a post-hamlet of Itawamba county, about 12 miles east, southeast of Fulton, the county seat. Population in 1900, 50. Vol. 2, p. 847 Van Buren. This was an old village in Itawamba county located on a high bluff on the Tombigbee river. The building of the Mobile & Ohio R. R. west of the place ruined it and the old site is now under cultivation. Mr. Winfield Walker, a nephew of General Winfield Scott located there in 1838 and was its first merchant, followed a year later by W. C. Thomas & Brother. (See Itawamba county.) Vol. 2, p. 888 Voy, a hamlet of Itawamba county, 10 miles northeast of Fulton, the county seat. It has rural free delivery from Eastman. Vol. 2, pp. 959-960 Wheeling. This was an old town in Itawamba county situated on the Tombigbee river a few miles below the old village of Van Buren. It was founded soon after the sale of the Chickasaw lands and its life was very short, as its business was absorbed by the latter town, just then rising into prominence. Its one hotel was owned by Jefferson Foster. Its merchants were Jowers & Holcomb, and R. P. Snow. Vol. 2, p. 994 Yale, a post-hamlet of Itawamba county, 11 miles northeast of Fulton, the county seat. Population in 1900, 21.