Gloster, Mississippi

Amite County

Population:   1142 in 1890 

                     1661 in 1900

                     1486 in 1910

                     in 1920

                     in 1940

                     in 1950

                     in 1960

Town incorporated:  3-11-1884

Post office:  3-3-1884 to present

Railroads: NOBRV&M- LNO&T- Y&MV- IC- ICG-        Gloster Southern

 

Next Town North-  Woodmen Springs

 

Milepost 311.8

(from Memphis, TN)

 

Next Town South- Enoch

 

soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY -

1909

 

 

 

 

1911

1908

1908

1907

1907

1906

BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

 

 

 

 

 

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