Enterprise, Mississippi

Clarke County

Population: 

Town incorporated:  2-18-1846

Post office: 7-16-1842 to 9-14-1842

                    5-26-1847 to present

Railroads: NO&NE- SOU- NS

                  M&O- GM&O- ICG- Midsouth- Meridian Southern

                  

Next Town North- Basic

 

M&O Milepost 120.07

(from Mobile, Ala.)

NO&NE Milepost 16.6

(from Meridian)

 

M&O Next Town South- Stonewall

NO&NE Next Town South- Wautubbee

1914 soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: Post office consolidated with one at West Enterprise in 1958. 

INDUSTRY -

Brookpark Lumber Co.

Southern Railway depot at Enterprise looking south about 1971.

 

Classic NO&NE depot at Enterprise, MS on July 18, 1936.

M&O motor car ("doodlebug") 1802 southbound at Enterprise, MS in the 1930's.

 

 

 

1927 NO&NE  valuation map revisions up to 1990

1916 M&O Valuation Map            click map for larger version               Tony Howe Collection

1916 M&O Valuation Map        click map for larger version          Tony Howe Collection

1916 M&O Valuation Map            click map for larger version               Tony Howe Collection

BUSINESSES- (per  R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

W. J. Adams- courier 1873-74-75-76

F. Artman- baker & confections 1874

H. M. Baugh & Co.- grocery 1875

H. Y. Baugh & Co.- general store 1876

Jos. E. Buckley (8 miles from)- general store 1873-74-75

J. H. Burt & Co.- general store 1873

F. J. Bushman- bakery 1873

Mrs. E. Byrnes- millinery 1875-76

Campbell & Smith- publishers 1873

W. R. Card- general store 1873-74-75

Mrs. Card- general store 1876

Mrs. Carr- confections 1873

Clegg & Collins- general store 1875

J. H. Clegg- boarding house 1876

Benjamin Cloak- general store 1873

Coffman & Gaston- drugs 1874

S. H. Coffman- drugs 1875-76

Compton & Tolson- grist mill & cotton gin 1875

J. W. Compton- dry goods & grocery 1873

W. H. Compton- dry goods & grocery 1874

W. H. Compton- miller & gin 1876

Cornelius Corbett- confections & saloon 1873-74-75

E. Corbett- saloon 1876

W. P. Davis- general store 1876

A. A. Denham- gun & blacksmith 1873-74-75

Wm. H. Edmondson- feed store 1873-74-75-76

E. A. Estes- liquor & confections 1874-75-76

Joseph H. Estes- farmer 1875

John Fountain- planter 1875

__ Friend- blacksmith 1876

E. B. Gaston & Co.- dry goods & grocery 1873-74-75

E. B. Gaston & Son- general store 1876

J. L. George- physician 1873-74-75

G. S. Glasener- hotel & saloon 1874-75

E. Hand- general store 1873

C. Hilderbrant- saddler 1873

James A. Jones- Shropshire House 1875

V. H. Jones- hotel 1876

Fred Kamper- general store 1875

John Kamper- general store 1873-74-76

John Kamper- grocery 1875

Kamper & Meyer- saloon 1873

E. F. Kimball- contractor & builder 1876

C. Kramer- tannery & boots & shoes 1873-74-75-76

M. P. Levy & Co.- general store 1873-74-75

F. W. Linz- confections 1874-75-76

Henry Linz- general store 1875-76

Lyerly & Buckley- general store 1876

Lyerly, Woolverton & Co.- general store 1873-74-75-76

McCormick & Campbell- general store 1875-76

J. U. McCormick- 1874

G. S. McGee- general store 1874-75-76

John McGee- planter 1873

I. F. Moore- physician, mill & farm. 1875

J. F. Moore- physician & grocer 1876

N. Moore & Co.- general store 1874

John H. Myer- beer saloon & confections 1874-75-76

Geo. T. Myerhoff- farmer 1875

Perkinsville Manufacturing Co. (near)- 1873

F. S. Pickle- saloon 1873-74-75-76

Martha E. Reinhart- millinery 1875

Charles E. Rencher- dentist 1875-76

James Sampson- b & s & confections 1875

M. Seeger- market 1875

G. M. Shaw- drugs 1873

A. B. Shropshire- hotel 1873

William C. Smith- general store 1876

Mrs. Amanda Sparks- confections 1873-74-75

Otto Steen- tinner 1873-74-75-76

A. Stern- general store 1873

Stonewall Manufacturing Co.- 1874-75-76

Mrs. M. E. Swain- millinery 1873-74

F. W. Volking- market 1873

F. W. Volking- grocer 1876

Mrs. F. W. Volking- restaurant 1874-75

J. A. Thompson- general store 1874

Wanita Mills- cotton & wool 1874-75-76

D. S. Weir- general store 1873-74

W. W. Weir- general store 1873

H. Well & Co.- general store 1875-76

W. H. White- druggist 1873

W. Thomas White- watchmaker 1873-74-75-76

White & Price- drugs 1874-75-76

 

 

 

 

 

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