On Apr 20th, 1863 some of the Federal troops entered Houston and it was at this time that the records of Chickasaw Co were burned. When Grierson left the Kilgore plantation, he sent a detachment under the command of Colonel Hatch to destroy the railroad. List of plantations in Mississippi. Chickasaw Co. The local churches planned a community wide prayer service which was to commence when word was received that the troops had hit the beaches. Under the 1831 Treaty of Pontotoc, these lands became available for purchase from the Chickasaw Tribe and were quickly incorporated into the United States. An unknown group has successfully restored the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. Still, Houston did not have a railroad. Houston was incorporated on May 9, 1837 and its first post office was established Dec 5, 1837 and the Postmaster With the coming of the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad in 1905, the town moved from its original site approximately a mile to the west. Okolona was incorporated in 1850 and by 1859 had three hotels, six dry goods stores, two drug stores, a jewelry store, two livery stables, a funeral parlor, candy, toy and liquor establishments. Although it was not as active in Chickasaw Co as in other sections, the Klu Klux Klan was organized and in operation during the Reconstruction period. Rev. During this period, in 1866, the formation of a second Judicial District was formed in Okolona. However, they encountered Confederate troops at Palo alto and the Union forces were turned north toward Okolona. A generation passed before farming in Chickasaw Co ws fully mechanized but agricultural practices had undergone great changes. Young men returning from World War I found a booming economy. Home Values by ZIP CODE. taxes be raised. Schools went from nine month terms to eight months in an effort to cut expenses. The Chickasaw people, for whom the county is named, left marks on the area that endure to this day The word "Chickasaw" means "Rebellion" or "He-Who-Walks-Away" and is supposedly a derivative of the name of the Indian leader, Chicka. In Dec 1864, a final effort against the railroad pitted the troops of General Grierson against Confederate General Gholson at the Battle of Egypt. All of these newspapers were strong Democrat party supporters. "Okolona Male Academy" was founded in 1852 by William f. Tucker. In the 1940s, dairying grew in importance. Cotton was the main crop; but corn was grown as food for both man and beast. dark eyes and moved with a superior and independent air. Hogs were It is located ten miles north of Houston and dates its history from 1836 when the Harrell brothers, William and Warren, bought a large tract of land from its Indian owner. General Sooey Smith was ordered to move from LaGrange, TN and rendezvous with his commander General Sherman for an attack on the Confederate arsenal at Selma, AL. the Viet Nam War was nine. Cotton was the main crop; but corn was grown as food for both man and beast. The leading citizens of Houston made several attempts to get a railroad through the town, but were unsuccessful until 1905. The Board of Supervisors cut taxes; but people were still unable to pay their taxes and lists of property being sold to pay the taxes filled the newspapers. The automobile was replacing the horse and buggy and a new invention, the radio, was bringing the world into homes throughout the county. An Economy was in a state of collapse; once prosperous farms and plantations lay in ruins; crops had been destroyed and most of the stock had been stolen or driven away. Soldiers intercepted a wagon loaded with the county record books at a point on the Starkville Road, a short distance from the Houston Cemetery. In 1859, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad came through the county passing through Okolona and Egypt. Land for Sale. At first, they were nomadic and great traders, but eventually became more settled into their lifestyle and formed more permanent villages and practiced a primitive form of agriculture.Traces of these people might be found a few miles northeast of the town of Houston (county seat of Chickasaw Co) on the Natchez Trace at a place called Bynum Mounds. The major manufacturing industry is upholstered living room furniture. Eventually the section from Gibson to Hwy 45 at Aberdeen was paved. Those selected in this election were: Richard L. Aycock, sheriff; George Hoyle, judge of probate; Charles Graeff, clerk of probate and police court; Hezekiah Goode, clerk of Circuit Court; Gilbert Anderson, tax assessor and collector; Claiborne Williams, coroner; William Kreider, county treasurer and Thomas Williams, county surveyor. 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,868 farms of 500-999 acres. The county was served by several stage lines with rented hacks and carriages in the early days. 100th anniversary were immediately canceled. The French and British also occupied Chickasaw lands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Local Indians were friendly. Instead of raising taxes, a contract was let to pave Hwy 8 between Houston and Vardaman. Denominations represented in Okolona during this period were Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Cumberland Presbyterian and Roman Catholic. Chickasaw was considered among the states postbellum black districts, as following the war its political boundaries were redrawn to ensure the election of African American candidates. It would be during the 1960s before the blacks would recover their participation in the electoral process. Travel across the bottom lands of Houlka and Chuquantonchee Creeks was very difficult and sometimes impossible during the rainy season. College". One was at the Augusta Council in 1763; the other at the Mobile Council in 1765 in Mobile. enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind Between 1860 and 1870, the Mississippi colored population only increased by Presumably some men from Chickasaw Co served in the Spanish-American War in 1896, but no casualties are listed and no records of Chickasaw County's participation are available. Turnpikes and They elected J. T Griffin and T. S. Evans, Whigs who had ron on the Union party ticket, as delegates to a state convention held in Jackson to "redress grievances". Goode's Circuit Clerk duties were performed by his deputy Adam Kerr Craig. Chickasaw Co experienced a drug problem among its young people. In 1894, the enrollment was 451 and five different states and forty MS counties were represented in the student body. A highlight of the event was the presence and participation of Overton James, Governor of the Chickasaw nation, and his the first mercantile firm was founded by W. L. Dogan; but he moved the business to Later, during the Creek War, the Chickasaws refused to join with the other southeastern tribes. Later this school was taken over by the Grace Episcopal Church and renamed "Rose Gate war effort by adopting a number of techniques to increase their production. A short time later, the Commercial Bank and Trust Company of Okolona also closed. The property consists PURPOSE. Blues musician Booker Bukka White was born in Houston in 1909. The brother of General N. B. Forrest, Colonel Jeffrey Forrest, maintained contact with the large force of northern troops as they moved to the south. According to local tradition, he camped near the present day the Concord Academy was founded by G. S. Gorasty about 1849 and located on Pontotoc Ridge seven miles north of Houston. One of the first roads constructed in the new county was between Houston and Hopewell; Hopewell now being an extinct town located in Chickasaw Co citizens struggled to continue the education of their children during the war years and afterward. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. Later a road was built from Houston to Starkville and the Houston/Hopewell Road was extended to Grenada. The countys industrial workforce also remained relatively small, with manufacturing firms employing just seventy-eight people. The page numbers used are the rubber stamped numbers in the upper Scattered Ku Klux Klan violence occurred in response to black political involvement, especially at voting sites. Palo Alto declined following the War Between the States. The school was originally founded as the MS Normal High Chickasaw has long been home to Sparta Opry, a live country music show. The rationale behind this was that the first owners were doctors who frequently made the drug store their headquarters during the day. Reprints of this book and Vol II may still be available. Newspaper stories strongly opposed and the state of MS never Slaves then constituted 55 percent of the population, and Chickasaw County planters and farmers pursued mixed agriculture, concentrating on corn and livestock as well as the cash crop of cotton. In April 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Ft. Sumpter, SC and the War Between the States began. The MS Senate passed a bill calling for a three percent sales tax and abolished ad By 1860 the county had changed substantially. School children collected newspapers, scrap metal, tin cans and clothing for refugees. The Public Works Administration changed the face of Chickasaw Co. School buildings and other public buildings were improved. the Union forces inflicted little permanent damage. Upon handwriting interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the census Needy people were able to work were given "construction jobs" and others received direct relief. Pontotoc soon afterward. Based on recent LandWatch data, Chickasaw County ranks 68th among the 82 counties in the state for Census data on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage At the end of the war and the beginning of the Reconstruction period, large bands of wandering blacks became the rule. This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the The only actual fighting in which the Chickasaws took part during this period was against General George Rogers Clark in 1780, defeating Clark. addressed in this transcription. Some of the families left the area completely and others moved In a few short years, the county moved from the ox-cart to the automobile to the airplane. The freed blacks were also handicapped by their lack of skills and the knowledge to get on his feet. The war years were particularly bitter ones for the people of Chickasaw Co. Roll 596) reportedly includes a total of 9,087 slaves. As it turned out, the invasion began at 3:00 AM Houston time and almost everyone slept through the ringing of the bell. Battle founded Okolona College, a black institution in 1902. transcription for their own purposes. was a primary school for boys conducted in the basement of Okolona Presbyterian Church. Though the census schedules speak in terms of "slave owners", the transcriber has chosen to use the Although no comparison can be made between the young people of Chickasaw Co and those of the urban areas of the northeast and west coast, repercussions were felt here. James Martin. can be viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. shipping center for the cotton growers and outstripped Houston as a center of commerce. Located in north-central Mississippi, Chickasaw County possesses a notable number of creeks and lakes and is traversed by both the Yalobusha and Tombigbee Rivers. The location of the plant was ideal to attract personnel from Okolona, Houston and other smaller communities in Chickasaw Co as well as Aberdeen, West Point and other nearby However, the slaves from the larger plantations who had been mistreated by their often left with the Federal troops. to town to try their hand at occupations other than farming. The new town of Houston was well supplied with professional men; having thirteen doctors and twenty-three lawyers in 1860. Easily find plantation land for sale in Chickasaw County Mississippi at LANDFLIP.com. The primary coordinate point for Houston is located at latitude 33.8984 and longitude -88.9992 in Chickasaw County . Smaller but still significant numbers of congregants attended the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Presbyterian Church. In 1850 a coalition of six Democrats and six Whigs met at the courthouse in Houston and drafted a set of resolutions. The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding In 1915, the United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. checked also. was edited by D. C. Greenwood. County showed such a significant increase. enemies". 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county boundaries. The agricultural economy with cotton as the span money crop was based firmly on the institution of slavery. The plight of the newly freed blacks was more serious than that of the county's white citizens. names of plantations in this County with the names of the large holders on this list should not be a difficult research task, but In Houston, the school was located on the northwest corner of Madison St. and Starkville Rd. resigned from the U. S. Congress and reversed his position regarding secession, the people of Chickasaw came to support the secession movement. Gas stations as such were yet to be and fuel for automobiles was bought at the local drug stores. Items such as Coca Cola and cigarettes were also hard to get; but there were few complaints. The editor went on to predict this invention would make "the dealer a merchant prince, the farmer an engineer and the plow boy, a mechanic." Reprints of this book and Vol II may still be available. After a two or three day "run" on the Okolona Banking Company in Oct 1930, the bank closed its doors. There were six lawyers and six doctors in the town. The hospital was located on the second floor of a brick store building located on the northwest corner of Jackson and Madison. After the surrender of Lee, the soldiers returned home to Chickasaw Co to almost unbelievable disaster. James Loughridge built a hotel from the timber that was cut from the court house square and this was probably one of the first buildings erected in Houston. The Chickasaw Indians refused, set fire to the Spanish dwellings and attacked the soldiers as they fled the flames. White land owners also successfully applied economic pressure by refusing to employ blacks who voted, or who voted Republican. The Chickasaw, a numerically small tribe, were assigned 2,422,400 acres (9,803 km 2) of land by using that formula. The Viet Nam War split the nation, but the people of Chickasaw Co again sent sons, husbands and brothers to that far corner of the world. In Chickasaw Co, political parties were operating through clubs. In the fall, a farmer might sell his crop at the same place where he bought his supplies. was to be rung as a signal for all the people to gather for the prayer service. Please do not use GIF. Pinson, a private spectator, was agreed upon and on July 8, 1836, the Chickasaw Co Board of Police ordered that the county seat be located on "Sections 4 and 5 in Township 14, Range 3 East. arising the next morning, they would travel in the direction that the stick was leaning. In Chickasaw Co, patriotism Several stores and a post office were built and the little town thrived. Under the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the Indians were finally driven from Chickasaw Co. Jackson passed through the area on his return from the Battle of New Orleans in Feb 1813. One Saturday in July, the ladies of Houlka were allowed to participate in a "straw vote" for he office of governor of MS. Other parts of the county were not so quick to approve female suffrage. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County, the number of slaves they held in Another story is told of a small pox epidemic originating with the bone barriers. Beinville was defeated at the Battle of Akia, fought on the site of present day The Great Depression had been building since the crash of the stock market in 1929 and now deepened. Plantation names were not shown on the census. In 1907 bids were let for the construction of a new courthouse in Houston. By the latter part of the 17th century, much of what is now Chickasaw Co was in the hands of the French. Assuming that he was facing a much larger used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. 8. By Sept 1950, Houston's newly formed National Guard had been activated and was on its way to * For Abbott & Co, "These Negroes are employed on that division of the Mobile & Ohio Rail Road lying in this County". During the early twentieth century canals were constructed to provide needed drainage and make the county's rich bottom land available for cultivation. and Counties, return to Home and Links Page. This was a high standard school and combined academics with industrial training and was the alma mater of most of the black leaders of the area. However, the data should be checked for the particular surname to see the extent of the matching. and caused him to move east to Okolona. However, both of these newspapers were short-lived. All citizens between the ages of 16 and 65 were asked to report to the schools and voting precincts to register for service in case of emergency. When French LA was taken over by Spain, the Spanish efforts to stir up trouble with the Chickasaws was resisted. If interested in purchasing one of these volumes, contact the Chickasaw Co Historical and Genealogical Society, P. O. In 1850, the Okolona Female College opened its doors and continued operation through the war. As late as the 1880s, blacks were serving in the state legislature; but passage of laws favoring white supremacy, along with economic pressure, eroded their participation in the electoral process. In Aug 1836 a survey was conducted and lots in the new town sold quickly and enough money was made available for the construction of a brick court house on the town square and a jail to be located one block to the north. Family Research Association of Mississippi, PO Box 13334, Jackson, MS 39236-3334. On Jan 5, 1861, MS became the second state to secede from the Union and the stars and bars became the fifth flag to fly over Chickasaw Co. A new and tragic chapter in the history of Chickasaw Co began. Discover Calhoun County County Mississippi plantation land for sale. Wallace A. The hospital moved to a new and larger building in 1957 and soon afterward the old building was torn down. Those opposed to the Compromise became known as States Rights Democrats. To avoid exposure, Klan leaders from Okolona would conduct their business in West Chickasaw Co and their Houston neighbors would cross the creek when called upon to return the favor in the eastern section of the county. On Feb 9, 1986 Chickasaw Co celebrated her 159th anniversary. GA, or from the westerns states of TN and KY. The war had encouraged more agricultural productivity and more scientific methods of cultivation had been introduced. increase in colored population of almost double between 1860 and 1870, growing to over 50,000, so likely that is where Houston also had several drug stores. In June 1950, the United States was once again sending its young men to war. Only about 29 percent of farmers owned their own land. The officials of Chickasaw Co attempted to levy funds for the relief of wives and widows and the children of the soldiers. was established to aid the unemployed and indigent, regardless of race, creed or color. ONLY OLD PICTURES OVER 50 YEARS OLD OR OLDER AROUND HOUSTON, CHICKASAW COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. Professor Hosea B. Abernathy and his wife, Sallie Garrett Abernethy conducted the school. LandWatch has hundreds of rural properties and land for sale in Chickasaw County. If an item could not be produced on the farm, it simply was not had. The Hopewell people were fascinated with death and attached great importance to the manner of burial. Southern Democrats were split by the Compromise of 1850 and those in favor of the Compromise joining with the Whigs to form the Union Party. In 1930, a record breaking drought gripped the entire nation and became one of the grimmest periods in the history of Chickasaw Co. Based on recent LandWatch data, Chickasaw County ranks 68th among the 82 counties in the state for Chickasaw County experienced considerable growth during the first few decades of the twentieth century. White settlers arriving in Chickasaw country from the north and east were hungry for land. Nestled in the hills of Chickasaw County, MS, these 188.65 acres located in Sections 7 and 8, T13S, R3E, offer both timber and recreational investment opportunities. During the six year existence of the hospital, it served more than 1,500 patients. for dairy purposes. 1836. A number of agricultural programs were created at the national level. According to oral Chickasaw tradition, which is a mixture of fact and legend, these Indian people left their homeland because of oppression. The number of black slaves in 1840 was 807; in 1850 was 6,480 and by 1860, slaves outnumbered the white population by 2,000. Another twenty years passed and another Frenchman, Vandruil, attempted to crush the Chickasaw nation. State Senator R. H. Knox called for a moratorium on the sale of property for taxes and asked for an extension on tax payments without penalty. Each former Confederate state was also required to ratify the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which stated that an individual might not be denied the vote because of race, creed, color or previous condition of servitude. Several communities vied for this school in Chickasaw Co; including Buena Vista, Houlka, Woodland, Parkersburg, and Van Vleet. 1%, about 6,000. Most families in the county had suffered losses of loved ones and material goods during the war and Reconstruction. African American ancestor with one of these surnames is found on the 1870 census, then making the link to finding that [1] Its county seats are Houston and Okolona. This ladies and gentlemen, is caressingly termed -- a tractor." The Plantation at Coal Creek, Tuttle. Jehu Orr, a States Right Democrat, and Cyrus B. Baldwin, an old line Whig, were sent from Chickasaw Co to the convention in Jackson for the purpose of deciding the future course of MS. FORMAT. slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may have still been living in the same State or County. The average slave owner owned eight slaves; but the larger slave holders owned between thirty and one hundred slaves. seats. Again Smith's troops broke and the Federal troops retreated to TN. FORMER SLAVES. This invasion was a part of the campaign against Vicksburg. The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. Rev. Chickasaw County is located in the northeast area of the state. to below nine cents a pound. Before the War Between the States, a road bed for a spur line from Okolona to Houston had been built. In addition to several attempts by federal troops to destroy the stretch of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad running through the county, a number of battles and raids took place in Chickasaw. of the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. Rev. County, Mississippi census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, Wall Plantations - Wall CHICKASAW Formed in 1836 from Chickasaw Cession of 1830 CHOCTAW Formed in 1833 from Choctaw Cession CLAIBORNE Formed in 1802 from Cattle, mostly a tough breed known as Opelousas, were unsuitable for been and were used primarily Both Houston and Okolona had a creamery and a cheese plant and a number of farmers "milked cows". Until this requirement was met, Southern states had no representation in Washington. In Sept 1930, the rains finally came but were too late. He was seriously wounded twice, but lived through the war and returned to serve his native state in the Legislature. 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