HISTORY by Tony Howe:
Breland was platted as a townsite on the Mississippi Central Railroad,
but never developed into a town as hoped. The railroad had a siding located
here, as well as a warehouse and 3 section houses for employees maintaining
the track in the area. A spur to a large gravel pit owned by the railroad
was built south from Breland by the Pearl & Leaf Rivers Railroad, but it
was abandoned by 1906. When the railroad was realigned east from Breland in
1923, a short stub of the original mainline was left in place until
1936.
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