S. 5 mi. is site of Okachickima post office, est. ca. 1820. Nearby are sites of Old Yalobusha Plantation, owned 1835-49 by Pres. James K. Polk and farm of U.S. Rep. Franklin E. Plummer. — — Map (db m173914) HM
In November 1862, Lt. Gen. John C.
Pemberton's army withdrew from a
defensive line at Abbeville to Grenada.
On December 5, Generals Lloyd
Tilghman and Mansfield Lovell set an
ambush for Federal forces in pursuit of
the retreating Confederates. . . . — — Map (db m173909) HM
First served as Indian trading post. Established, 1834, as Yalobusha County
seat. Received name from Gen. John Coffee, who directed Indian removal
from this area. — — Map (db m173910) HM
As Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the
Mississippi Central R. R. Campaign in
November 1862, he ordered Union cavalry
in Arkansas on a raid toward Grenada.
Near Oakland, General C. C. Washburn
and 1,900 cavalry met Confederate Col.
John C. . . . — — Map (db m173901) HM
Eminent historian and author. First director of the Miss. Dept. of Archives and History (1902-1937). His life was dedicated to preserving the history of Mississippi for the scholars of the future. — — Map (db m173902) HM
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On April 30, 1900, railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones died when his Illinois Central train, the "Cannonball," collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones, who once lived and worked in the railroad town . . . — — Map (db m55641) HM
The North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, now the United Methodist Church, was organized one block East on November 30, 1870. It was created from portions of the Memphis, Alabama and Mississippi Conferences - Bishop . . . — — Map (db m55610) HM
Born in Water Valley in 1907, Hubert
Creekmore earned degrees from the
University of Mississippi and Columbia
University and studied at the University
of Colorado and Yale. A veteran of the
US Navy in World War II, he was a poet,
playwright, . . . — — Map (db m219817) HM
Born in Water Valley, James Ford (1911-
1968) was a pioneer in archaeology.
Conducting extensive surveys across
the Southeast, including the Mississippi
Delta, he created a technique for
dating sites using ceramic seriation.
He also worked in . . . — — Map (db m219822) HM
Robert W. Turnage is the fourth generation pharmacist in the Turnage family & new owner of Turnage Drugstore Inc. He trained & received his degree (Pharm.D) from the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy in 1999. Robert's great grandfather, Wade S. Turnage . . . — — Map (db m219826) HM
