There were several towns in the early history of the county which have long since disappeared. Amsterdam was a beautiful village on Big Black, near the present site of Edwards.  Amsterdam was a village located on the Big Black River a short distance westward from Edwards, Mississippi. It was a United States Customs Port of Entry. The United States Post Office at Amsterdam was established December 26, 1832 and discontinued November 27, 1839. The Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad passed to the south. The village of Amsterdam immediately moved and created Edwards.The name of the United States Post Office was changed to Edwards Depot, November 27, 1839. The name was changed to Edwards, December 19, 1883, as it remains today. Amsterdam appears to be the first village in the state to suffer the fate of becoming a ghost town because the railroad did not pass through the village. However, it was not to be the last. The United States Post Office at Yeiger's Store (Or perhaps Yeiser's Store) was established February 24, 1832, and discontinued June 4, 1839.  There is nothing there now to show where it once was. In the same neighborhood was Yeiser's Store, an election precinct which polled about 400 voters, long since forgotten.
 
Newton was a place between Raymond and Terry, and the home of Albert G. Brown, once United States Senator, and perhaps, at that time, the most popular Democrat in the state.
 
Meridian Springs was a town that was lost to Hinds [County] when the two townships on the north were given by the Legislature to Madison County. Meridian Springs had the first United States Post Office that was established in Hinds County [July 28, 1828]. It was located northward from Jackson (No doubt on the Natchez Trace and probably in the Doaks Stand area.) The name was changed to Battle Springs on August 29, 1851 when this area was made part of Madison County.

Source: Exceprts taken from The Masons and Methodists in Utica, Mississippi, compiled by James E. Price, 1998.

 

---