Blue Mountain, Mississippi

Tippah County

Population: 466 in 1900

                   650 in 1910

                   654 in 1920

                   569 in 1930

                   544 in 1940

Town incorporated:  1-31-1877

Post office: 1-20-1874 to present

Railroads: G&SI- G&C- MJ&KC- NOM&C- GM&N- GM&O

Next Town North- Lowery

 

Milepost 336.0 in 1905

Milepost 338.23 on valuation map

(from Mobile)

 

Next Town South- Cotton Plant

 

1912 soil survey map

1955 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY (per Dun & Bradstreet)-

1917 GM&N Track Chart & Profile 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

Mrs. Lulu Bates- general store 1910

Blue Mountain Hardware Co.- 1910

L. M. Box & Co.- grocery 1910

Calkins & Co.- staves 1910

City Drug Co.- 1910

City Meat Market- 1910

Spencer Gibbs- general store 1875

J. W. Godwin, sawmill 1900

J. W. Godwin- general store 1910

J. P. Godwin & Co., general store 1900

Gurney & Co.- general store 1910

U. B. Holt, undertaker 1900

Lowrey & Berry, books 1900-10-

J. M. Major- general store 1910

W. E. Major- photographs 1910

McAllester Bros.- livery 1910

J. F. Merritt & Co.- millinery 1910

Miss Nannie Merritt, millinery 1900

C. F. Palmer, general store 1900-10-

D. M. Palmer- furniture 1910

O. F. Ray & Co., general store 1900

W. L. Robertson- hardware jewelry doors blinds 1910

B. L. Simmons- meat 1910

Thompson & Bevill, general store 1900

M. Winborn, blacksmith 1900

 

 

 

 

 

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