Baldwyn, Mississippi

Lee & Prentiss County

Population:  560 in 1900

                     787 in 1910

                     922 in 1920

Town incorporated:  4-1-1861

Post office: 11-20-1860 to present

Railroads: M&O- GM&O- ICG- Midsouth- KCS

 

                  

Next Town North- Wheeler's

 

M&O Milepost 297.40

(from Mobile, Ala.)

 

Next Town South- Guntown

 

soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY -

1916 view of Baldwyn depot. 

 

Tool house and motor car house at Baldwyn in 1994. 

 

October 21, 1979

March 1972

May 1981

BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

M. Burge & Co.- dry goods 1868

James S. Long- drugs 1868

R. H. Porter- grocery 1868

 

May 1981

 

 

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