Alligator, Mississippi

Bolivar County

Population:   263 in 1920

                     in 1940

                     in 1950

                     in 1960

Town incorporated:  2-18-1890

Post office:  5-11-1887 to present

Railroads: M&V- LNO&T- Y&MV- IC- ICG

 

Next Town North- Bobo

 

Milepost 88.4

(from Memphis, TN)

 

Next Town South- Duncan

 

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.)- 

Burbridge & Co.- general store 1910

J. T. Burton- general store 1910

F. Camarato- grocery 1910

P. P. Darr (near)- sawmill 1910

I. S. Fisher- general store 1910

M. Kline- general store 1910

W. H. McCracken- drugs 1910

V. Martino- fruit 1910

W. B. Nichols & Co. (near)- general store 1910

Planters' Mercantile Co.- general store 1910

J. C. Rainer Co.- general store 1910

M. C. Scott- general store 1910

A. M. Weaver- general store 1910

K. Weiss- general store 1910

 

 

  

 

  

 
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