Olive Branch, Mississippi

DeSoto County

Population:  199 in 1890 

                    198 in 1900

                    221 in 1910

                    in 1920

Town incorporated:  4-11-1873

Post office: 

Railroads:   Memphis Selma & Brunswick- Memphis Birmingham & Atlantic- KCM&B - SLSF- BN- BNSF

                  

Next Town Northwest- Mineral Wells

 

Milepost 501.7

(from Springfield, MO)

 

Next Town Southeast- Miller

 

soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY -

 
 

 

Depot in Olive Branch, MS in 1954.

  

 
BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

 

  

 

  

 
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