Kirby, Mississippi

Franklin County

Population: 

Town incorporated:  no

Post office: 4-24-1902 to 2-28-1921

Railroads: N&E- MSC- ICG

Next Town East- Morfolco

 

 Milepost 119.5 after 1927

(from Hattiesburg)

 

Next Town West- Davis

 

1912 soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY-

E. H. Butler- pine lumber mill cutting 20,000 ft/day listed on Freight Circular No 21-L List of Sawmills and Planing Mills on Mississippi Central RR Nov. 1, 1919. 

Homochitto Lumber Co.- operated a logging camp at Kirby to supply their large mill at Bude

 

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