Lexington, Mississippi

Holmes County

Population:   1075 in 1890

                     1516 in 1900

                     2428 in 1910

                     in 1920

                     in 1940

                     in 1950

                     in 1960

Town incorporated:  2-25-1836

Post office:  

Railroads: W&E- Y&MV- IC- ICG

 

Next Town East- Owen's Wells

 

Milepost 12.7

(from Durant, MS)

 

Next Town West- Delaney

 

soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY -

1920 Y&MV track profile updated to 1939- Collection of Robert Tomb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

 

 

 

 

 

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