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William
Faulkner
in New Albany, MS
Cleveland Street?
Research
Contacts
Jennie
Stephens Smith Library
Union
County Library
P.
O. Box 846
219
King St.
New
Albany, MS 38652-0393
(622)
534-1991
Union
County Historical Society
and
Heritage Museum
P.
O. Box 657
New
Albany, MS 38652-0405
(662)
538-0014
Union
County Chancerly Clerk
109
E. Main St.
New
Albany, MS 38652
662-534-1900
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Brief History
Union County was established July 7, 1870, during the reconstruction era, and was named so because of the union of parts of Pontotoc and Tippah Counties. In 1874, part of Lee County was annexed to it, thus making its present land area of 412 square miles. Located in the northeastern part of the state in what is currently known as Furniture Country, it is a place where the culture and history of the Deep South blend with today's progressive ideas.
Hernando DeSoto was reported to have crossed the Tallahatchie River at the present site of New Albany on his first expedition.
Slightly north of New Albany, the present county seat, was the old Indian trading post of Alberson, called for the first citizen and trader at the place. Booker Foster and Moses Collins were merchants there in the early days, as were John N. Wiley, and Powers and Morgan, who manufactured wheat fans here from 1839 to 1844. Moses Collins built a good grist mill and sawmill in 1840, on the present site of New Albany, and the business of the older settlement soon moved to that place. Not even a trace of the old village is left. New Albany is on what is known as the "Pontotoc Ridge," the highest land in the state and has a rich farming country all about it. Wallerville, Blue Springs and Myrtle are other villages in the county. The streams are the Tallahatchie River, which runs through the center of the county, and its tributary creeks the Oconitahatchie, Wilhite, Locks, Lappatubba, and Jones; the head streams of the West Fork of the Tombigbee River take their rise in the eastern part of the county.
Union
County Links
Archived
Queries
Surnames
Lookups
Deed
Books 2 & 3
Photographs
of Union County
Family
Linage and Union County Family Pages
Union
County Bible Records
Union
County Gravestones Now Complete!!!
Cemeteries
in Union County Locations
and pictures
Church
Records
Marriage
Records
New
Albany City Page
Civil War Information
Notable
People from Union County
Obituaries
Old
Letters
Places
in Union County
Union County Libraries
Useful
Neighboring County Links
US GEN WEB Census Project for Union County, MS
Marriages
Performed by Rev. Jesse T. Cox
Tippah
County Confederates Page
Tippah
County
Land
Patents
Company
E of the 43rd MS Infantry
Company
E of the 43rd MS Infantry Roster
Civil
War
African
Heritage Links
Slave
Voices: Duke University Special Collections
International
Society of Sons and Daughters of
Slave Ancestry
0ther
Research Links
Mississippi
Libraries
Online
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Mississippi Census
Records at CensusFinder.com
Bureau
of Land Management Land Patents Site
Mississippi DAR
The Tanglefoot Trail - History of the Railroad through Union
County
MSGENWEB State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp
Asst. State Coordinator:Denise Wells
Melissa
McCoy-Bell
Union
County
MSGENWEB
Coordinator