S.A. (Sandy) Simmons, a local entrepreneur, built this Queen Anne Style home in 1904. Simmons operated a mercantile store, saw mill, cotton gin, post office, grist mill, and farm in the Mesa community. In 1910 Governor Earl L. Brewer appointed . . . — — Map (db m51631) HM
Founded October 4, 1836 on site purchased from a Baptist congregation. Present church built in 1854 at a cost of $100. China Grove Methodist Campground begin in 1878; first meeting Sept., 24-30, 1879. — — Map (db m115498) HM
In June 1848, Benjamin Lampton and his brother-in-law Cullen Conerly established a post office here in Lampton's mercantile business. Situated on Dry Creek between Conerly's Mill and Tyler's Mill, the store and post office served as the social . . . — — Map (db m115476) HM
Founders Cemetery is located on land bought in 1819 by Joseph Thornhill, later owned by Cullen Conerly and then Ephraim Rushing. Early residents of Conerly's (later named Tylertown) are buried here, among them more than thirty children. Founders . . . — — Map (db m153080) HM
Tylertown/Walthall County railroad history
New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (GM&O) 1909
Liberty White Railroad (1911)
Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf (FC&G, next door) 1906 — — Map (db m243152) HM
Walthall County, named for U.S. Senator Edward C.
Walthall, was created from sections of Pike and
Marion counties in 1910 by the legislature and
ratified by local voters in 1914. Incorporated In
1907, Tylertown was declared the county . . . — — Map (db m284564) HM
The Walthall County Training School had its beginning in the 1870s when Isaac Ginn began to teach the local African American children to read and write in a small, one room, split-log cabin structure. Using Rosenwald Foundation funds this structure . . . — — Map (db m115535) HM
