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Tallahatchie County

Mississippi

The early post office was located down on the river near Sharkey on Jere Robinson's plantation. He had a private landing and river crossing. These private landings were set up primarily for the
convenience of the plantation owner, but were used by the public.

J.S. Robinson settled this site in 1842. It was located one mile south of Glendora. It became a settlement on the Y & MV Railroad in 1890. It became extinct in 1930 as a railroad station.

This junction was established in 1890 when the Y & MV Railroad ran a spur line to Minter City and junctioned with the main line at this point.

Blue Lake six miles southwest of Webb was first settled in 1854 by L.H. Milliken, Sarah Partee, Asa Watson and a man named Griffing.

Barzil is located seven miles northeast of Sumner and was settled in the mid-1800's and called Lay for the man who owned the land, but later changed to Bessie for his daughter. The railroad was built in 1906 . Smith Murphree now owned the land and it was called Murphree's Spur. For some unknown reason the name was changed to Brazil in 1915.

Camp Talleha is located four miles south of Charleston. William Beal purchased the land in 1834, and in 1835 he offered the sight for the county seat but was refused.
There is no more recorded history of this place until 1925 when the land was secured by the Delta Council of The Boy Scouts of America for a camp sight and was named for the county.

When the Government opened this section of land for sale in 1833 many settlers came. Most of them settling around what is now Cascilla. Cascilla is located nine miles southeast of Charleston.. In 1833 the first settler was Thomas A. Ellis. He established himself about two miles northeast of the present town. He was soon followed by Ross, Staton, Cox, and the Calhoun families. Ross established his residence on the creek and erected a water mill which soon became the center of the community, and it was given the name Ross's Mill which it retained until around 1877.
Ashland Church was built in the early 1840's near the neighborhood of the Ross's Mill. Many of the the old settlers remembered the community by the name of Ashland, but the name does not appear in the county records. In time the center of interest shifted to the west. A village was developed near the present town site and in 1877 it became a voting precent and was named Cascilla. The H. Staton family had settled to this site.

Cascilla received its name from the post office which was originally about two miles from where the town now stands. The post office was named Calista for a friend of the postmistress, but another office had a similar name and the name was changed to Cascilla. In 1898 the Cascilla Male and Female High School was chartered by J.M. Calhoun and J.H. Brown as trustee. The school functioned for only a few years and in 1920 the Cascilla Consolidated School was organized in a new building and it also served as the community center.

Cowart is located eight miles east of Webb. This land was purchased between 1835 and 1838. Years later it was named for the owner of a local Plantation. The land was finally sold in small tracts. A man named Marshall bought a tract and built a store and filling station. The place was then called Marshall's Filling Station.

Crevi is about three miles north of Charleston and was settled in the 1840's. In the 1860's it was called Mitchell's Cross Roads for Wash Mitchel who operated a store. From 1891 until 1907 there was a post office named Crevi for a man who owned most of the land in the area.

Distall is twelve miles north of Philipp. In 1841 the first U.S. Survey of the sight was done and the first land was purchased in 1853 by E.S. Watson. There was a timber boom in 1906 and the Y&MV Railroad station was established and named Distall.

Easum is about two miles southwest of Webb and was named for its first owner. It was located on the Blue Goos Branch of the Y&MV Railroad which was removed in 1928.

Effie is twelve miles southwest of Charleston. In 1906 it was a flag station on the Y&MV Railroad. It was named for the daughter of Dr. T.B. Harrison who owned the land where it was built.

Enid located twelve miles northeast of Charleston. The first survey of the Enid township was made in 1836-1837. Sale of Government land began in 1838, and that year purchasers were Joseph Duke, John Allen, and John Craig. In the early 1840's a settlement was developed a few miles west of Enid and the Presbyterians built a church which they called Pine Hills. Soon the Baptist built another church in the neighborhood and they called it Sandy Creek, which later was changed to Pisgah.

The railroad came through and a station was established at Talliaferro's Crossing two miles north of the town's present site. The first railroad station in the county was established in the 1850's when the M&T Railroad was opened from Memphis to Grenada. At one time there was a wood yard there to furnish fuel. for the locomotives.  Prior to 1875 the town of Harrison was established at the present site. It was named for a prominent family of the community who were extensive land owners. There was a voting precinct at Harrison and prior to 1891 there was a post office. The population was reported to be 300. The railway station was moved from Talliaferro's Crossing to Harrison prior to 1891. It was first called Harrison as was the post-office and voting precinct. About 1900 the name of the post office was changed to Enid. For some years to follow the town retained the name of Harrison and Enid. About 1903 the name Enid was given to the railroad station and the voting precinct and the Harrison name was gradually dropped. In 1916 Enid and Kirkpatrick Schools were consolidated with a school building being erected at Enid.

Located one mile southwest of Vance. It was no more than a few plantation houses, a cotton gin and ,commissary located on the plantation of S.M. Fewell who purchased the land in 1903.

Located four miles southwest of Webb this site was founded about 1905.  At that time a sawmill owned and operated by Wade & McHenry Lumber Co., was in operation.  The Y & MV Railroad ran a spur line to the mill and it ws called Duggers.  About 1915 Judge H.B. Flautt of Sumner purchased this land and the place then became known as Flautt.  Flautt became extinct when the spur line was discontinued in 1928.

Eight miles southeast of Webb is Glendora. It started our as a small sawmill site. Logs were floated down the river from around the vicinity of Webb to be sawed there.

The first settlement was developed two miles south of Glendora at Black Bayou. When the railroad was built through the territory in 1883 a station was located there and called Glendora. The town immediately grew. A post office was established and a voting precinct was established.

Cane Lake Lumber Company built a large saw mill there and it operated until 1909 and then was moved to another site.

Graball located five miles north of Glendora was first surveyed in 1836, and the first land sold was in 1838. There was a popular steamboat landing there prior to 1859. The steamboat attracted large crows who were eager for any form of entertainment. It was said that one boat captain operated a game in which for fifty cents one could have all they could grab from a bag he held. On one occasion a Negro with very large hands grabbed all that was in the bag. The landing immediately became known as Graball.  The railroad missed Graball in 1890. In 1895 the voting precinct was moved, and in the late 1990's the post office was discontinued and Graball became extinct.

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