Glen Allen, Mississippi

Washington County

Population:   50 in 1910 per Dun

Town incorporated:  no

Post office:  Glen Allan- 8-21-1883 to present

Railroads:  Y&MV

 

Next Town East- Hampton

 

Milepost 180.6

(from Memphis, TN via Coahoma)

 

 

soil survey map

1939 USGS topo map

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

 

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

Glen Allen was at the end of a short branch line of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR. The railroad was abandoned about March 1941. 

INDUSTRY -

Standard Oil Co.

Glen Allen Oil Mill- cottonseed oil mill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

W. G. Allen- drugs 1910

Paul Conguista & Co.- general store 1910

Glen Allen Mfg. Co.- mfgrs wagons 1910

Glen Allen Oil Mill- 1910

S. Goodman- general store 1910

A. D. Jones- grocery 1910

H. P. Kirkland- general store 1910

Lee Bros.- general store 1910

P. L. Mann- general store 1910

Ross Portega (sp?)- grocery 1910

Sam Schonwald- general store 1910

Edward Thompson- general store 1910

 

 

 

 

 

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